Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real stormer from these sessions is a tune called ‘ Hittin' The Bottle Again ’ , in which he just strokes his National Steel and sings this sad , lovely song about dereliction and bar-hopping . |
| 2 | On each of these points he is able to expand as the result of more detailed observation into which he also introduces his own speculations , as in " it has been broke of [ sic ] through a natural cause because of the texture " . |
| 3 | The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism , the subject which he quickly made his own . |
| 4 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 5 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 6 | What he did was not merely the making an erroneous account stated , or promising to pay a debt for which he mistakenly believed himself liable . |
| 7 | She gave Changez a considerable backhander across his wobbling chops , which shut his mouth for a fortnight , during which he miserably carried his bruised jaw to his camp-bed — that raft in a storm — and did n't speak . |
| 8 | A marked increase in their power would challenge what he surely considered his rightful position within the Yorkist polity . |
| 9 | A marked increase in their power would challenge what he surely considered his rightful position within the Yorkist polity . |