Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know where he got them all from but it was always very interesting , and we worked our way through an album that was subsequently released . |
| 2 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |
| 3 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 4 | So he held firm and , after the decisive vote on paragraph 21 of chapter 3 of Lumen Gentium , noted late at night : These rather scrappy notes , jotted down late at night on 22 September 1964 take us to the heart of Paul VI , and illustrate how he saw his Petrine ministry in relation to the ministry of other bishops . |
| 5 | Sam West explains how he disliked his own performance at first , but now realises it 's a special film . |
| 6 | He did n't care how he got his own way as long as his own way was what he got . |
| 7 | He occasionally uses his verbal felicity as a means of protecting his negative face , just as he does when he makes his ethical arguments for turning down Hollar 's request deliberately complex . |
| 8 | Paddy Shennan asked actor Michael Starke what he does when he puts his shammy leather down . |
| 9 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 10 | He explained why he made his controversial choice : ‘ I believe the number one goal of America 's survival is healing the divisions between black and white . ’ |
| 11 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 12 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |