Example sentences of "which he sometimes " in BNC.

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1 The photograph that Boy looked at most often and which he sometimes even left out of the box and kept on the floor beside his bed as he slept was one that looked like a photograph of Boy himself .
2 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 .
3 He usually bedded down on newspapers and covered himself with an old blanket which he sometimes left in the porch , ready for the next night , and sometimes took away , rolled into a long wad and tied around his stomach with string .
4 After mass he has a cantata sung , during which he sometimes dispatches very urgent business .
5 It was William who had convinced Preston at an impressionable age that little girls , as they grew up , also grew ‘ two tits and a willy ’ , a fantasy which Preston had accepted as gospel for at least two years and which he sometimes thought still influenced his relations with the opposite sex .
6 His stern upbringing may explain an insensitivity to the feelings of others less resilient than himself which he sometimes displayed on the bench , particularly in criminal appeals .
7 Generally illustrations were separately bound in , with complex instructions to the binder as to where they should go — which he sometimes got wrong .
8 She thought she might find Oliver sleeping on the couch which he sometimes did if he came late and did not want to disturb her , but he had not come home .
9 He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street .
10 In which he seeks to introduce a sense of nuance , and in which he sometimes offers three or four possible different explanations of one particular human action , without adjudicating between them .
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