Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 2 | The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow . |
| 3 | This guy I used to know , Babs Eadon , he told me of how he went to get a holiday job when he was doing a Masters degree . |
| 4 | One occasionally comes across a man who is almost a recluse and one wonders how he manages to make a living for he does n't seem very interested in doing so . |
| 5 | It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off . |
| 6 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 7 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 8 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 9 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 10 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 11 | Connolly , incisive and dangerous throughout , scored twice in the second half , and only referee Les Mottram can explain how he failed to complete a hat-trick . |
| 12 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 13 | The Finnish official made one of several peculiar decisions when he failed to order a retake . |
| 14 | Solicitations for military promotion could become quite pointed if the politician did not act quickly , as the Earl of Marchmont discovered when he failed to secure a promotion for Lieutenant James Wedderburn , whose uncle complained was |
| 15 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |
| 16 | Kirk became known internationally as " Captain Kirk " in 1983 when he had led a fleet of fishing boats across the North Sea to challenge the 12-mile exclusion zone declared by the United Kingdom government [ see pp. 32340 ; 33681 ] . |
| 17 | He remembered when he had led a regiment of Church militia into the Swinkbacks , driving a ragged group of Jeopardites before them . |
| 18 | And last night , when he had ingested an almond — the absolutely worst thing that could happen to him — something good had happened . |
| 19 | I once saw Bert cry tears when he had rouged a gnat 's cock too much off . |
| 20 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 21 | An apparently dry old stick , secure in the fraternity of the common room , and content with the comradeship of his brother , Lewis is approaching 60 when he learns to love a woman . |
| 22 | Arthur would lie on the floor heaving , dead silent apart from a rust creak at the moments when he managed to catch a breath . |
| 23 | Such lists are not always easy to find , as is described by Newby ( 1977 ) when he tried to devise a sampling frame of farms in a certain area . |
| 24 | Police say the 45year-old ex-steelworker was kicked and beaten to death when he tried to stop a gang of vandals near his home . |
| 25 | SPIKE LEE is once again in hot water , once again at a time when he 's got a movie to promote . |
| 26 | He says that there have been occasions when he 's had a gun held to his head and been told to operate on someone 's brother first , or he 'd be shot . |
| 27 | Has he asked you for permission to make a statement to the House on the initiative or , has he , as he did last week when he refused to make a statement to the House on the Welsh business rate , copped out once again ? |
| 28 | In fact , I now know of three occasions when he did use a double . ’ |
| 29 | He served on Lancaster town council from 1871 to 1880 and was MP for the Lancaster division of North Lancashire from 1886 to 1895 , when he retired to accept a peerage , allegedly in return for a contribution of £10,000 to Liberal party funds . |
| 30 | However he did have a lot of good things to saya bout Leeds when we were winning the title . |