Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory .
2 He knew how he wanted the last scene to look .
3 The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall .
4 Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB .
5 If , however , there is no attempt to copy a pattern , there is often more appreciation of shape in whatever is made — like the four-year-old who made a triangular shape from three strips and correctly named it , whilst another boy ( 3.9 ) named the second shape ( a square ) when he added a fourth strip to the original three .
6 He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post .
7 Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode .
8 NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display .
9 CHRIS Balderstone will create history at Lord 's tomorrow when he becomes the first umpire to sit in judgement during a Test in England .
10 The Open champion had blitzed the famous old course with six birdies when he reached the 17th tee .
11 In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen .
12 The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines .
13 remember when he hit the first stone and hit that car window
14 But there is a more cheerful day ahead for him next Tuesday when he introduces the last Question of Sport in the present series .
15 But whereas Paul Dukas seems to have seen the error of his ways when he edited a second volume ( vol.1 ) , d'Indy persisted with his ‘ improvements ’ : his Dardanus ( vol.10 ) and Zaïs ( vol.16 ) are every bit as misleading as Hippolyte .
16 Rush capped a brilliant evening for the home side in the 83rd minute when he volleyed a third goal from Dozzell 's headed clearance .
17 He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 .
18 In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university .
19 He had decided that Sadler 's Wells was where he wanted the first performance .
20 I think I can understand why he chose the 18th century .
21 Which was why he dipped the second piece of fried bread carefully in the egg and turned it about , concentrating on making it yellow all over .
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