Example sentences of "which he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some of his most effective imagery in The Four Quartets was based on the underground , which he patronized for reasons of speed , economy , and no doubt of experiencing the frisson of imagining himself consigned to perdition . |
| 2 | In 1953 , he was voted best actor and director for his theatre work , this was also the year in which he directed NAGARIK ( THE CITIZEN ) , the first of the eight feature films that he completed . |
| 3 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |
| 4 | Polanski arrived in Hollywood from Europe on the back of a spoof horror film called The Fearless Vampire Killers , a parody of the horror genre , which he directed and in which twenty-three gallons of imitation blood were used . |
| 5 | The latter comprises his introductions to several volumes of the series The Documents of Modern Art which he directed and edited from 1944 , his contributions to Possibilities , the first magazine devoted to modern art and culture in the US , as well as those to Modern Artists in America , a book on the contemporary art movement published in 1951 . |
| 6 | For all the wartime jibes and contempt which he directed from Berlin at ‘ Mr Bloody Churchill ’ and his followers , he was hanged . |
| 7 | [ Berton ] then learnt that M. Rey was acquiring the greatest reputation in the kingdom by the skill with which he directed [ conduisait ] the main provincial orchestras . |
| 8 | Distinguished guests fared only a little better ‘ … a pleasant fiction and cheerful jest of the captain 's … a profoundly preposterous box ’ was how Charles Dickens described his cabin on board the Britannia in which he crossed the Atlantic on his trip to America in 1842 . |
| 9 | Altogether it was an expensive holiday for which he crossed to Le Havre on 8 August . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you hear a scream ? ’ she asked dulcetly , then blinked at the speed with which he crossed the ground . |
| 11 | Even in his mid-seventies , Finniston is showing no sign of flagging in his boundless energy or in the missionary zeal with which he preaches the gospel that a healthy industrial economy is in the best interests of society as a whole . |
| 12 | If Charlemagne strove to achieve the regeneration and salvation of the society over which he ruled , this could only be done in association with the clergy . |
| 13 | Of particular importance to understanding Charles ' rule is the need for a clear picture of the geography and political divisions of the huge territories over which he ruled . |
| 14 | This is well illustrated by a famous decree made by Barbarossa , in which he ruled that a fire raiser who had taken refuge in a castle must be delivered to justice by those who had sheltered him , but not if he were the lord of the castle-owner , or his vassal , or his kinsman . |
| 15 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 16 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 17 | Some have assigned it to 481 , the probable date of Childeric 's death , others to 486 , when Clovis is said to have defeated Aegidius 's son , Syagrius , and taken over the city of Soissons which he ruled . |
| 18 | … the grains of dust which the Australian detaches from the sacred rock are so many sacred principles which he scatters into space , so that they may go to animate the totemic species and assure its renewal . |
| 19 | I think for the male student who is subject to sexual harassment , or who gets the sort of inappropriate approaches that Marianne is talking about , that is unusual , it 's out of step with the way in which he perceives himself , and his sense of what he is and who he is in the world . |
| 20 | The poor boy , who resembles Philip Roth , tells the story in which he takes part , and does so in a manner that can be considered uncontroversial . |
| 21 | The right answer I obtained out of Sir Ian Gilmour 's study of public violence in 18th-century England — a period which he takes literally , namely from 1701 to 1800 . |
| 22 | The attendant fuss which comes with his being the most likely American to succeed this week is not something to which he takes readily . |
| 23 | Dall built his own Dall-Kirkham reflector with a 39-cm ( 15½-inch ) mirror in his back-garden observatory in 1937 , with which he takes photographs of the Moon and planets rivalling those taken by larger telescopes in professional observatories . |
| 24 | Before that it is worth reiterating Althusser 's holistic view of the individual , and introducing an analogy which he takes from Marx . |
| 25 | This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined . |
| 26 | Althusser elaborates his thesis that Marxism is not a historicism at some length , presenting a critique of the historicist and humanist traditions which he takes back from Sartre to the beginning of the century , even to the Russian Revolution itself , and in which he also includes the ‘ absolute historicism ’ of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School . |
| 27 | The answer is clear : it owes to the biological presuppositions which he takes from Aristotle . |
| 28 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 29 | It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself . |
| 30 | ( E ) The conference nominates his excellency , Ali Mahdi Mohammed , as provisional President of the Somali Republic for a period of two years from the day on which he takes the oath . |