Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Harvey Goldsmith M.D. , was educated at Bedford Grammar School , after which he went to Cambridge and then St. George 's Hospital , where he had been house surgeon and house physician . |
| 2 | He reappeared at Fawsley , near Daventry , at Coventry and at Wolston Priory , after which he fled to La Rochelle , leaving others to carry on . |
| 3 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 4 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 5 | Not after what he did to me ! ’ |
| 6 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 7 | But he treated the democracy about which he boasted to foreign journalists with near contempt when it stood in the way of his domestic ambitions . |
| 8 | This procedure , during which he seemed to be returning to himself , a quick , efficient , considered series of movements , subdued Alice 's criticism . |
| 9 | Sgt Smith was granted leave , during which he returned to Sheppey . |
| 10 | He was to discover , after a staggering journey of 19 months and 3,450 miles , during which he came to within 150 miles of the centre of the continent , that no paradise such as he had imagined existed . |
| 11 | It jerked against the safety-chain , leaving a narrow gap through which he scrambled to safety . |
| 12 | Altogether it was an expensive holiday for which he crossed to Le Havre on 8 August . |
| 13 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 14 | Tony Page , Assistant Manager , Administration , Corporate Banking , Edinburgh devised a crossword , copies of which he sold to friends and colleagues for £1 each . |
| 15 | Astonishingly Mathews , the only member of the murder gang to be apprehended , was given £1000 , half of which he passed to Drury . |
| 16 | He ended by writing twenty-five pages , some of which he read to Elinor late one night , There were also two longish poems in free verse , which he did n't yet feel quite ready to expose to the world . |
| 17 | That boosted his income last year by a mere £1,550 , all of which he paid to charity . |
| 18 | Some of Lakatos 's writings indicate that he wished to defend a position something like the one I have labelled rationalism , and that he viewed with horror the position I have labelled relativism , a version of which he attributed to Kuhn . |
| 19 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 20 | One angry Dutch CD said after the meeting that he deeply regretted the outcome , especially in view of what he took to be Mr major 's anti-European comments . |
| 21 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 22 | There was no pause between exchanges ; all the while their tongues wagged their hands worked , for the woman at the table went on making her cakes , while Maggie walked back and forth into and out of what he took to be a pantry at the far end of the kitchen , bringing out all that was necessary for a tea . |
| 23 | And , turning back the net curtain in his wee front parlour , caught sight of what he took to be a torchlight procession . |
| 24 | McEwan Younger was a marvellous host , especially with business or political cronies , and had a leisurely , relaxed manner that could become passionate in discussion of what he thought to be mistaken policies or dubious personalities . |
| 25 | Ayer gives us an example of what he considers to be a meaningless theological statement : ‘ The Absolute enters into , but is itself incapable of , evolution and progress ’ . |
| 26 | The explosiveness of these articles by Nizan is doubtless explained as much by Nizan 's anger at the reporting restrictions imposed by the Garde des Sceaux on sub judice matters affecting fascist infiltration in France , as it is by his visceral fear and hatred of what he considers to be the terrible consequences of the spread of fascism within his homeland . |
| 27 | Rounding against the people of the North of England , ‘ whose warped sporting instincts are so difficult to understand , even when they are quite familiar ’ , Ensor condemned the commercialisation of sport , the sensationalism of football journalism , and the adoption of what he understood to be French and American coaching tactics , as a wholesale corruption of sporting values . |
| 28 | Selling what he still thought of — in spite of what he said to Mary — as Hilbert 's things , appeared only on the perimeter of it , in an area of doubt . |
| 29 | He read — and this helps to fix the date — the beginning of what he announced to be ‘ a new poem ’ . |
| 30 | His actions and ideas were those of a young man with a clear perception of what he considered to be right and wrong , and a clear understanding of what he judged to be the sources of oppression in the world . |