Example sentences of "on [Wh det] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 2 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 3 | ‘ Hank Stych ! ’ he hailed a startled Boyd , who had half risen from an easy chair , scattering the papers on which he had been working . |
| 4 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 5 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 6 | Sometimes a person would arrive just as the divan on which he had been sleeping was dragged away . |
| 7 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 8 | Further enlightenment is delayed until ( 11 ) , which at last explains how the interview came to take place at all ; but again , this information is postponed to the end of the main clause , in the relative clause " on which he had been invited which in turn contains a further relative clause " who happened to know … resident tutor " . |
| 9 | Harbury dived in with a question about the legality of such a transfer which , like much of what MacQuillan had done , was contrary to the conditions on which he had been allowed to acquire the paper . |
| 10 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the two occasions on which he had been tempted to abandon the Army for politics , and the cordial relations he had maintained with the CEDA , Franco was disdainful and suspicious of politicians . |
| 12 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 13 | Erm , it was written in eighteen fourteen , and the author , at the time , was watching the bombardment of Baltimore from a British ship on which he had been detained . |
| 14 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 15 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 16 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 17 | Thus the ‘ study ’ on which he embarked was , one suspects , confined to one aspect of the question : was the Church 's authority so committed by Casti Connubii of 1931 that any change now would discredit that authority ? |
| 18 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 19 | Accepting that the average study period for a student is six to seven years long , an educational programme on which he starts is required to offer that body of knowledge and those skills that he will be required to demonstrate ten to fifteen years on . |
| 20 | He was employed , together with Edward Pierce [ q.v. ] , on the rebuilding of St Andrew 's church , Holborn , in 1684 , and other buildings on which he worked were Belton House ( Lincolnshire ) , Denham Place ( Buckinghamshire ) , and Culverthorpe Hall ( Lincolnshire ) . |
| 21 | The ground on which he broke was his speciality — foreign affairs . |
| 22 | Then Rolle describes two further stages in which his experience is illuminated as the truths of God on which he meditates are felt inwardly . |
| 23 | The 39-year-old , on what he insists is his last tour , re-asserted his intention to return home at the end of the India leg on 6 March — rather than go , after all , to Sri Lanka for the final fortnight in an effort to help restore confidence and belief to his side . |
| 24 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 25 | His justification for this apparent rejection was not theoretical at all : it was based on what he claimed was the ‘ abundant evidence of experience ’ . |