Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 2 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
| 3 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 4 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 5 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 6 | He also had to be the grey-haired , elderly , exhausted Chaplin , which he conveyed with much sympathy . |
| 7 | Edgar , chivalrously , moved out of the flat they rented in New Cross , though he could hardly afford to do so , and into a large shabby house in Greenwich which he shared with several old Cambridge friends . |
| 8 | One was his simplicity — which he shared in some measure with Joffre . |
| 9 | ‘ His investigative talent , which he displayed in this instance , will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future and I hope that he will have a long and distinguished career , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The two threats to this development which he saw in that late summer of 1923 were Lloyd George and unemployment . |
| 11 | I would owe that to my father … to try and understand something which he believed in enough to die for ? ’ |
| 12 | It was a decision which he regretted for some years , although within the university he proved an effective teacher and he was dean of the faculty of science from 1894 until 1913 . |
| 13 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 14 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 15 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 16 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 17 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 18 | Peter overcame this adversity in fine style and his later career with us was highlighted by his regular appearances throughout 1975–76 , in which he played in all eight Cup ties in Palace 's great run to the FA Cup semi-final , and then the following season , when he was captain at times after the loss of Ian Evans . |
| 19 | David Bailey , the photographer whose lens pinned the swinging sixties forever to the wall , noted in 1985 that the mini-skirt was directly attributable to Jean Shrimpton 's legs , more of which he exposed with each successive photo session despite Vogue 's initial efforts to airbrush in what he 'd hiked up . |
| 20 | As pumps improved , Crookes got lower pressures than Faraday had been able to do ; and eventually he discovered cathode rays , which he interpreted as this fourth state . |
| 21 | His twelve years of study and the roll call of the masters of Paris of his day — masters of grammar , logic and theology , professors from England and France and further afield — bear witness to the serious nature of the academic work in which he joined with such enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Yet Oldknow 's historical reputation largely derives from the community which he created in this rural setting . |
| 23 | The general theory of human culture which he built upon this , for example A Scientific Theory of Culture ( posthumous , 1944 ) , was not so successful . |
| 24 | He had been eager to start work upon the latter ever since the completion , and relative failure , of The Family Reunion — if only to correct the overt poeticizing and the unbalanced structure which he discerned in that drama . |
| 25 | From time to time , almost absent-mindedly , he reached into his pocket and produced a sweet , which he gave to any small boy who happened to be near . |
| 26 | ‘ Seek the cloister ’ ; ‘ stay safe in port ’ : these were the precepts which he gave to those who desired true freedom . |
| 27 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 28 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 29 | In an interview which he gave in this year , the reporter noted how he seemed much " heartier , more unworried and more unafraid of the world than he did … five years ago " . |
| 30 | Perhaps an exception might be made for the one important and sustained collective activity in which he participated during these years . |