Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began speaking as soon as he entered the lecture-room , which he generally did five minutes after me hour . |
| 2 | There he was particularly concerned with such questions as the size of convoys , which he successfully made larger , and the concerted offensive against U-boats in the Bay of Biscay on passage to and from their shore bases . |
| 3 | Based on David Stuart Leslie 's novel In My Solitude , the story cast Crawford in the clumsy ‘ two left feet ’ role for which he soon became familiar . |
| 4 | To Gerald Thomas , who experienced a lot of Ken 's problems — mainly his sexual difficulties , the director remembered for me ; his dissatisfaction with a part of his life which was neither fulfilled nor which he even wanted fulfilled — Ken was ‘ a child , a child who was always showing off ’ . |
| 5 | He was probably born before 1130 , and if so , the place of his birth was probably London , with which he also had close associations in the last twenty years of his life . |
| 6 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 7 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 8 | He was shown the Kurume azaleas , which he later did much to popularize , and collected in Korea and Taiwan . |
| 9 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 10 | Nicotra hit the Jamaican-born Cook , 33 , with a right uppercut from which he never looked likely to recover . |
| 11 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 12 | On the Monday , though , Slater had been in the small steamy cafe and sandwich bar on Red Lion Street which he usually spent most of his term days in , and Graham had supplied him with cups of tea and expensive rounds of smoked salmon on granary bread while Slater slowly , teasingly , told him about Sara . |
| 13 | Generally illustrations were separately bound in , with complex instructions to the binder as to where they should go — which he sometimes got wrong . |
| 14 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 15 | Working swiftly , in quite a short time he filled the case , which he then snapped shut . |
| 16 | Wells employed two different ways of thinking about the future , which he once labelled undirected and directed thinking . |
| 17 | In Germany , the pre-eminent centre of Europe 's intellectual life , he could not only learn the language , but engage in the study of philosophy and religion which he now felt certain was his true vocation . |
| 18 | Apart from predictable duties , like that of sitting through a performance of The Family Reunion ( a play for which he now had little affection ) , he was asked to crown the Swedish snow queen at the winter festival : he told Robert Giroux that he had hoped this might be combined with the Nobel ceremony itself , so that he could wear ice-skates with his tails . |
| 19 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |