Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had taken her number which he handed to the officer . |
| 32 | These seemingly effortless designs were the cause of much exasperation , as Minton describes in the satire ‘ Doing the Book of the Film or ‘ How I Ruined My Life ’ which he contributed to the Royal College 's magazine , Ark . |
| 33 | The defendant agreed , and prepared a list of goods to the value of £7,950 which he submitted to the manager , Mr. Gilberd , saying that it represented a genuine order by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods in return for a building society cheque in that sum . |
| 34 | He owned a motor launch named Splash which he lost to the Navy in the war . |
| 35 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 36 | The bruiser got up again and bought a large measure of whisky , which he gave to the bearded man , who made short work of it . |
| 37 | The effect of these was temporarily marred by an interview of quite startling indiscretion which he gave to the People newspaper , then very right-wing and hardly distinguished . |
| 38 | We handed over the stamped forms , which he gave to the koko for safe keeping . |
| 39 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 40 | In a sacramentary he is shown being crowned by Christ , and in a book of pericopes ( biblical extracts ) which he gave to the cathedral of Bamberg , Christ is crowning Henry with one hand and his wife Kunigund with the other , while the patron saints of Bamberg , Peter and Paul , look on . |
| 41 | Marx was , as Engels stressed in his funeral oration , first and foremost a revolutionary , and so the importance which he attached to the study of pre-literate peoples , the traditional field of anthropology , might at first seem strange . |
| 42 | Panels lit up and he reached for a number of X-ray plates which he attached to the luminescent plastic . |
| 43 | One of his early projects was a film version of John Galsworthy 's Escape ( 1930 ) , which he proposed to the writer as a way to enable theatre to ‘ regain influence ’ over the screen . |
| 44 | More common is the seller who , having inserted an exclusion clause into his conditions of sale , relies on his buyer not bothering to read ( or not understanding ) the small print ; for example , the exclusion clause may be contained in the small print of a guarantee which he gives to the buyer . |
| 45 | At the Kazan " requiem for the victims of Bezdna ( which took place in the emotionally charged atmosphere of Palm Sunday ) he stepped forward at the end of the service with a commemorative address in which he referred to the dead peasants as " friends , killed for the people " . |
| 46 | I also have a copy of a speech he made in Geneva to the United Nations , in which he referred to the fatwa as outrageous , and an abuse of the most fundamental human rights — really very strong language for the British Government ! ’ |
| 47 | He was delighted by the somewhat undeserved honour of the Chancellorship of the University , which was bestowed upon him in 1930 , and which he retained to the end of his life . |
| 48 | He was active also in the Volunteer Militia ( forerunner of the Territorial Army ) , in which he rose to the rank of captain . |
| 49 | Matthew raised over £1,1OO in sponsorship money , which he donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 50 | The minister says he feels humiliated by the lynchings , which he attributes to the ‘ absence of government ’ in many areas . |
| 51 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
| 52 | She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world . |
| 53 | Mr. Cowan then laid on the table the fifty volumes from Cassells Library which he presented to the Society . |
| 54 | Some churches also long possessed objects given to them by Cnut , which occasionally bore inscriptions to that effect , like the reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which he presented to the monastery of Abingdon . |
| 55 | For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press . |
| 56 | ‘ At least , Punch did to me what he does to the horses in the spring . |
| 57 | What he brought to the Card Trio was what the singers also brought , which is dramatic tension ; and yet its subtlety is such that it does not draw attention to itself , but simply contributes to the dramatic fabric of the whole . |
| 58 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 59 | Though I tried to read Marx I could n't connect what he said to the world I knew . |
| 60 | I do n't know what he said to the lady of the house , but we were not invited to return . |