Example sentences of "which he [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps the best part of the show was the ‘ If only … ’ sketch in which he reflected on what might have been . |
| 32 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 33 | Forster now withdrew to Rothbury , which he reached on 19 October . |
| 34 | Even Boscawen , however , had to withdraw to refit and revictual and thanks to Byng 's blundering , which had robbed England of Minorca , that meant going all the way to Gibraltar , which he reached on 3 August . |
| 35 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 36 | Sadleir then went down to the Red Sea coast at Yenbu , which he reached on 20 September . |
| 37 | He referred specifically to the point that this concrete path was only " " seven feet long " " , and it seems to me that on the evidence he was entitled to come to the conclusion which he reached on the question of fact , i.e. that in all the circumstances the steps formed part of the building . " |
| 38 | With a pair of scissors the Inlay Operator cuts out a small piece of black card which he places on his white desktop . |
| 39 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 40 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 41 | In his absence I have attached an extract from his recent book , Against Goliath , in which he reflects on leadership and success in politics . ’ |
| 42 | The new volume ties that information through its comprehensive indices , but also serves as a catalogue of Monet 's drawings , sketchbooks , pastels , caricatures and curiosities , which include three tapestries woven , with his approval , from his designs , and fragments of pictures which appear to have survived the ruthless pruning which he inflicted on works of insufficient merit . |
| 43 | After a long and colourful summing up , in which he swelt on the viciousness of the attack and the grievousness of the wounds , the callousness of the defendants and the misery of the surviving relatives , he made one adamant point . |
| 44 | At the touch of her dry , quick hand , which he remembered on his back , his neck , his thighs , his cock , the bridge of flesh at the root of his balls , he felt a shiver run through his limbs of renewed longing again . |
| 45 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 46 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 47 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 48 | By contrast Aleksandr Yakovlev , regarded as the most liberal politburo member , won an unexpectedly warm reception for an impassioned address in which he dwelt on the value of perestroika in doing away with the Stalinist legacy and restoring morale and morality and the dignity of both the party and the individual : he observed that " not only emptying shelves but also emptying souls brought about perestroika and demanded revolutionary changes " . |
| 49 | The feelings which he experiences on finding her are described vividly by Bradbury . |
| 50 | Just to show he has n't lost that wicked sense of humour , he keeps a chicken 's head mask on the passenger seat of his car which he slips on whenever he is recognised . |
| 51 | He needed solitude to write , as well as a place of his own for entertaining his girlfriends , which he found on Mountain Street . |
| 52 | Still less was he interested in what he considered the barbarous traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Church which he found on his arrival . |
| 53 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 54 | Rico came in with a couple of white towels , which he threw on the table . |
| 55 | Percy Marlborough Stewart left to the people of Pocklington his collection of water-lilies , one of the finest in Europe , and the Stewart collection containing illustrations and objects of the many countries of the world which he visited on his hunting expeditions . |
| 56 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 57 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 58 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 59 | In the rear of one of these biplanes there was a gunner with a Scarfe ring who selected a pan of rounds which he put on the gun . |
| 60 | The New York Herald dispatched the journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find him , which he did on the famous encounter of 10 November 1871 at Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika . |