Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] he the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alexander 's method was brought about by his unique way of thinking which made him the genius that he was .
2 His loneliness as a child had been reinforced by his years of solitary endeavour in the north-west frontier in India and Kenya , which made him the world 's leading authority on the diseases of the camel .
3 He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat .
4 Thanks to proper medical care , the infection was cured , but he needed a convalescence of four weeks under medical guidance , a time which cost him the part of Timmy Cleary that he craved .
5 He is firmly established in the half back line , which allows him the luxury of being able to press forward in support of his attacking colleagues .
6 Ten minutes ahead on the clock , Short castled on the queenside and began a pawn advance which secured him the initiative .
7 He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel .
8 He receives what are called letters of administration , which give him the title to the property ; even where there is a will , but no executor is appointed , there must be a grant of letters of administration cum testamento annexo , ‘ with the will attached ’ .
9 Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’
10 Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season .
11 William Hill have already reacted by installing him as 5-2 favourite to win the world after his record fifth successive victory in the Masters , a performance which earned him the gold trophy for keeps .
12 He was quickly involved in a series of crashes which earned him the nickname
13 The regular conductor Bruno Walder was taken ill , and Bernstein suffering from a hangover had to take over for a Sunday afternoon concert broadcast on radio across America ; he captivated the audience and the critics , as much with his conducting prowess as with his gyrations on the podium which earned him the nickname ‘ Leaping Lennie ’ .
14 Through his association with the customs , which earned him the title of ‘ customer ’ , Smith entered the realms of government finance and court patronage and politics .
15 That kitten grew rapidly into a sleek handsome cat with a boisterous nature which earned him the name of Buster .
16 Sparke published forty-two of Prynne 's works , including Histrio-mastix ( 1633 ) , which earned him the antagonism of William Laud [ q.v. ]
17 Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier .
18 Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail .
19 But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year .
20 His works were on a small scale until in 1823 he became engineer for the Difference Engine project of Charles Babbage [ q.v. ] , which gave him the opportunity to build highly accurate large machine tools for his workshop , the best known of which was his large planing machine , built in 1831 .
21 FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship .
22 To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance .
23 In November , he was given ‘ emergency powers ’ , which gave him the right to issue legally binding decrees and appoint people to any government post without reference to the Supreme Russian Soviet .
24 In preparation for the Congress , the standing parliament , the Supreme Soviet , demanded that constitutional changes be made by the Congress to allow the legislature more control over the government , since President Boris Yeltsin 's emergency powers , granted by the fifth ( extraordinary ) Congress in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] , which gave him the right to appoint the government , were due to expire .
25 At first Mussolini was the senior partner , a position which gave him the feeling of power he clearly relished .
26 He was wearing a homburg and his face was swarthy , thickly browed and with a thin moustache , which gave him the appearance of a continental .
27 It was almost a religious conviction he had , and one which gave him the courage to carry out his plans .
28 He is passionately devoted to the English and American novel : his first remembered literary emotion was provoked by reading Hawthorne 's short story The Minister 's Black Veil , which gave him the ambition to write fiction himself .
29 With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business .
30 Yet Erhard 's honest , calm , and fair-minded character reflected a lack of political acumen and an inability to wield authority which won him the nickname of ‘ the Rubber Lion ’ .
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