Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 2 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 3 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 4 | Whenever he spoke to the woman he regretted that he had not stamped his authority and demanded that Gwen should be released from Leconfield and transferred with him , but they had said in Century 's personnel that he must have a secretary who knew the ropes of the Service , and he had acquiesced . |
| 5 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 6 | She waited as he pointed up the quay , bursting to ask how he knew about the Quakers , let alone where they met . |
| 7 | So that 's how he knew about the grain . |
| 8 | We were asking Fish Sparks as we call him how he knew about the fish that swims up your pee and he said he 'd seen some fat explorer fellow on the box going on about it , which sounded likely enough . |
| 9 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 10 | She also has a story of how he disappeared during the dress rehearsal of a performance by Miss Webb 's pupils , to be found later ‘ in the wings , sitting perched on a pedestal , in a dream world of his own ’ . |
| 11 | Asked how he decides on the price of a dish , the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) explains that black ingredients are always the most expensive because people like to remind themselves of death . |
| 12 | With particular pride he notes how in the crisis of 1124 , when the king of England and the emperor were allied against him , and Henry V planned an attack on Rheims , Louis put himself dramatically under the protection of St Denis , ‘ the special patron and singular protector after God of the kingdom ’ ; how he came to the saint and begged him to defend his kingdom , preserve his person and resist his enemies , as the saint was accustomed to do . |
| 13 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 14 | The Champion features a little boy called Owen and tells how he copies with the illness . |
| 15 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 16 | ‘ If it 's not his jokes , he is constantly relating how he fought as a moss trooper on the northern march . ’ |
| 17 | Seb did not want a light to show Carrie how he got down the stairs . |
| 18 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 19 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 20 | ‘ You none of you know how he died in the workhouse and was buried in a pauper 's grave ? ’ |
| 21 | Your students will be absorbed by the adventures of Peter : how he copes with the problems of learning English and the hostility of his classmates , and how he discovers his true identity . |
| 22 | You heard for yourself how he sounded on the phone ; he said he 'll be down . |
| 23 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 24 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 25 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 26 | I asked Dr Ian Rolfe , now at Chambers Street Museum , how he felt about the selling of fossils . |
| 27 | When asked by a reporter how he felt about the prospect , he admitted , ‘ I 'm shitting myself . ’ |
| 28 | You can read about how he survived in the letters he wrote to his wife , published here by Faber as Letters To Olga . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's take all the little bastard 's clothes off , and see how he looks as a nigger . ’ |
| 30 | I wonder how he performed on the potty ? |