Example sentences of "[Wh det] he had [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew hesitated for a second , apparently taken aback by the ease with which he had gained his free dinner . |
| 2 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 3 | The ease with which he had provoked her own tumultuous response alarmed her . |
| 4 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 5 | In the cafe she found Fosdyke nursing a malt whisky ( 'Kept for me specially by Carlo because I was once able to do him a favour' ) and the children occupied with a Space Invader machine for which he had advanced them hundred lire pieces . |
| 6 | Robyn screwed up her brow and tried to remember what he had said his other name was . |
| 7 | It was known on what path he would be returning — or at least , according to what he had led us all to believe . |