Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 2 | In May 1940 Winchester became adjutant , RE , in 5 Indian Division , with which he went to the Sudan a few months later on active service . |
| 3 | He described three miasms ( syphilis , sycosis and psora ) which he related to the venereal diseases ( syphilis and gonorrhoea ) and the skin itch ( akin to psoriasis ) respectively . |
| 4 | Scott prepared a plan showing the relationship between the Foreign Office and the India Office which he sent to the Office of Works , who then on 17th January , 1859 instructed him to proceed with detailed drawings and prepare an approximate estimate of the cost of the new Foreign Office . |
| 5 | Almost the only incident to mar the near perfection of the period immediately surrounding his retirement was the absence of any reply to a somewhat sententious letter of reminiscence and good wishes which he sent to the Duke of Windsor ( as King Edward had become ) . |
| 6 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 7 | The crux of the letter which he wrote to the secretary of the OTC on 9 August 1922 was the matter of his nationality . |
| 8 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 9 | There he entered a museum which had no antiquities , and in the course of several years built galleries to house two private collections which he brought to the museum . |
| 10 | Eyvør woke up and made food-begging noises , so the Birdman finished his story and cut up some more strips of herring which he fed to the little bird . |
| 11 | Shklovsky calls this realistic side-effect ‘ motivation ’ , which he contrasts to the laying bare of the device . |
| 12 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
| 13 | The purpose of his journey , which he revealed to the king 's sister , Adela , countess of Blois , was to excommunicate the king , ‘ for the injury which he had done to God and himself for the last two years and more . ’ |
| 14 | The writer 's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what , without this book , he would perhaps never have perceived in himself . |
| 15 | Where the debtor intends to oppose the petition , he must not later than seven days before the hearing file at court a notice specifying the grounds on which he objects to the making of a bankruptcy order and send a copy of the notice to the petitioning creditor ( r 6.21 ) . |
| 16 | Colonel Negus , a hero who had served in Marlborough 's army , was given a seat in Parliament and the custodianship of Bigshot Rayle , which he left to the care of his deputy , Baptist Nunn . |
| 17 | which he left to the Birmingham Art Gallery ( on condition that it opened on Sundays ) . |
| 18 | Now sixty years old , failing in health , and without papal backing , Winchelsey was unlikely to present the new king with the problems which he offered to the old one , but he did not hesitate to support the barons against Gaveston . |
| 19 | Pietro Miletti opened his briefcase and took out a sheet of paper which he offered to the magistrate . |
| 20 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 21 | Having waved them to a table , he flourished two wine glasses , which he filled to the brim with an excellent Chianti , before heading for the kitchen . |
| 22 | This interest is something which he continued to the end of his life , as witnessed by his increasing knowledge of India and to a lesser extent of China . |
| 23 | In one hand he carried a canvas satchel , some maps and a flashlight , which he added to the pile before eyeing her find . |
| 24 | The price is more likely to relate to the individual picker and the regularity with which he sells to the warehouse . |
| 25 | He was also a superb phonetician , and a master of mimicry , a technique which he used to the full as a raconteur . |
| 26 | Each riding forester had under him two or three walking foresters , who made annual payments to him equal to the amount of the farm which he paid to the warden . |
| 27 | This would amount to £216 3s as the value of a florin at this period was 3/ , this sum with 25 marks which he paid to the Pope for his consent was about one years income of this bishopric . |
| 28 | It was this guitar along with another ‘ 58 maple neck Strat which he handed to the Fender Custom Shop to form the basis of the Robert Cray Strat . |
| 29 | He got up and went across to a bureau in the corner furthest from the fire , returning a moment later with a folder which he handed to the T'ang . |
| 30 | Disappearing into a back room , he emerged carrying a gold watch and chain which he handed to the two policemen . |