Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I will suggest in chapter eight , the black sportsman sees sport not as a hobby , but as a central life interest , a sphere in which he might find scope for self-expression and a possible avenue out of his mundane , everyday existence . |
| 2 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 3 | Near the end of the book , Holden fantasises about his ideal life , in which he would go West , and pretend to be mute . |
| 4 | Joseph was dressed in a formal gray knicker-bocker suit and the Annamese at his side was already wearing the stepped Ming dynasty bonnet , curly-toed boots and embroidered silk gown in which he would pay homage to the emperor of Annam along with hundreds of other mandarins at the annual Tet ceremony . |
| 5 | Often Morton had told himself savagely that there would soon be a point at which he would lose interest in the prospect of salvaging them . |
| 6 | These are the not-books for which he must take responsibility . |
| 7 | erm the capped level is an arbitrary level , taken by the Secretary of State , beyond which he will restrain expenditure in the interests of protecting the charge payer . |
| 8 | In this case , the retailer is liable to his buyer , the boy , but now has no contract under which he can recover indemnity . |
| 9 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 10 | You , if you are well informed , can then point out that there 's a way in which he can get tax relief on his donations . |
| 11 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
| 12 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 13 | It was a lens through which he could view life , literature , and history , often with mischievous irony . |
| 14 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |
| 15 | Sixty years later , in a yet more striking case , the newly arrived Russian ambassador to Denmark , finding that the king , Christian V , was in bed and too ill to receive him , insisted on having another bed provided on which he could lie side by side with the king so that they could talk . |
| 16 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 17 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 18 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |
| 19 | He knew that he still had certain assets on which he could raise cash . |
| 20 | I ask them what he might like eating ; some suggest eating car tyres and drinking oil . |
| 21 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 22 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 23 | As a boy growing up in New York , he recalls his father doing whatever he could to keep food in the ten hungry mouths , including buying up condoms and sunglasses wholesale and selling them to shopkeepers . |
| 24 | His enthusiasm was to visit Ireland and he had read whatever he could get hold of by Irish writers , but especially by Flann O'Brien . |