Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 2 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 3 | Lee Dickenson explains how he came to carve the massive ‘ Chindit ’ sculpture , which won the Arbortech Woodcarver competition at the 1990 Woodworker Show . |
| 4 | Mr Ensoll , district head postmaster for Darlington , recalled this week how he came to bypass an MI5-type job in favour of the Post Office . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 6 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 7 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 8 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 9 | In 1940 , Joyce recalled how he had attended a pre-war dinner of English historians , at which the ‘ fifth-rate ’ G. P. Gooch ‘ assured his frightened colleagues that Hitler would amount to nothing … . |
| 10 | Since Rhodes she had known ( since he told her ) how he had met the Flemish woman in Lindos ; and had equally known ( although he had not told her ) that Katelina van Borselen had somehow been persuaded or forced into commerce with him . |
| 11 | Quickly , in as few words as possible , Jack told him what had happened with the Glory , how he had seen the gigantic Worm break through the earth , and how both Tina and his mother had denied all knowledge of what they had seen . |
| 12 | Was that how he had developed the deep tan that made him look somehow so vital ? |
| 13 | He had long forgotten how he had despised the old man for being mean and ignorant . |
| 14 | Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise . |
| 15 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 16 | Yesterday , PC John Jobson , 33 , told how he had become the latest statistic in the soaring number of knife-related offences . |
| 17 | He shuddered and replaced the glasses , before describing how he had spent a sleepless night worrying what he should do and in the morning had made up his mind to tackle MacQuillan again . |
| 18 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 19 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on how he proposes to spend the additional resources announced in the autumn statement . |
| 21 | Spiller is explaining to Pod how he proposes to move the grating over a drain . |
| 22 | He spent the next 40 minutes telling MPs how he plans to reverse the appalling situation . |
| 23 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |
| 24 | Those of you who remember Fred will know how he worked to start the British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association as far back as nineteen seventy two . |
| 25 | How he loves to recall the far-off days before the Netherlandish beetle savaged the English elm , before the uplands were girdled with Christmas trees . |
| 26 | It also isolated how he has approached the tricky transfer to the screen : ‘ Theatre is the art of suggestion and not of statement … the cinema has to produce complete images . ’ |
| 27 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 28 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 29 | Its strong beat had been a friend beside his ear at night as he lay thinking , or when he woke to have a quiet smoke in the darkness . |
| 30 | It reminded him of when he had guarded a colonial nursery , after an unexpected attack by Hunters had resulted in the abduction of two small infants . |