Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 5 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | He remembered when he had led a regiment of Church militia into the Swinkbacks , driving a ragged group of Jeopardites before them . |
| 11 | I once saw Bert cry tears when he had rouged a gnat 's cock too much off . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | SPIKE LEE is once again in hot water , once again at a time when he 's got a movie to promote . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
| 16 | But the body of Mrs Wilks was not found until two days later , at the bottom of a motorway embankment two-and-a-half miles away , when a motorist took police to a spot where he had seen a silver Renault 25 parked . |
| 17 | One was Tim Skerritt , the steward of the Carewscourt estate ; another was the youngest son of a small farmer ; the third man was going to reside permanently in Castlebar where he had obtained a position in a draper 's shop . |
| 18 | But , as Dr Henriques has remarked , " he was secure of this only in the parish where he had established a settlement " . |
| 19 | This future leader of the Scottish Reformation was actually at that stage far more interested in England , where he had found a haven under the Protestant Edward VI . |
| 20 | Then , unexpectedly , he invited Brian and me to stay in Northumberland where he had taken a grouse moor for the summer ; thereafter we went each year until he died , first to Otterburn and then to Wark . |
| 21 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 22 | He moved to Headley with his family last year from London , where he had won a reputation as a campaigner in his community , and set up practice as Jack Warshaw Conservation Architecture and Planning after many years as head of conservation at Wandsworth Council . |
| 23 | Carefully , she made her way to where he had laid a pile of tablecloths on the floor . |
| 24 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 25 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 26 | Income shall not be treated as that of an individual under s739(3) ( payment of a capital sum ) where he has received a sum by way of loan and he has wholly repaid the loan before the beginning of the particular year . |
| 27 | What they wanted to hear was why he had become a Muslim . |
| 28 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |