Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 2 | 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 … . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He remembered when he had told a young woman that her husband was dead , killed by a sniper in the Falls Road area of Belfast . |
| 10 | Bracewell , who received the injury in an accidental clash with Gavin Peacock in the derby game at Newcastle last month , played in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich City , but missed the midweek defeat at Leicester last week when he had to have a slight blockage in his nose cleared . |
| 11 | A Birmingham graduate , Professor Lodge taught in the English Department until 1987 , when he retired to become a full-time writer . |
| 12 | However he had made a harmless-looking technical assumption in setting up the problem which proved to be unduly restrictive . |
| 13 | After contracting tuberculosis he spent a year in Italy , where he began to write a satirical novel , later published as They Winter Abroad ( 1932 ) , under the pseudonym of James Aston . |
| 14 | Before Hun Sen 's visit to the USA ( his first ) , he had visited Japan where he had made a specific request that Japanese troops participate in the UNTAC . |
| 15 | He left an estate comprising a house and shipyard in Hull , a country house in Thorngumbald , where he had established a dissenting chapel , and various farms and properties in Hull and east Yorkshire . |
| 16 | It was where he had taken a vivacious Puerto Rican paediatrician , Carmen Rodriguez , on their first date . |
| 17 | The place where he had founded a small bank . |
| 18 | Richard now pressed on to Salerno , where he wanted to discuss a recurrent ague with the city 's famous doctors . |
| 19 | Monie will be sadly missed , not only at Wigan but throughout the domestic game where he has set a shining example with his model behaviour off the field and his professionally-sound methods on it . |
| 20 | I think one of the great areas of such as system is in teaching young doctors , in training people , and an expert who ca n't tell a tutee why he has given a certain answer is n't really much good as a teacher . |
| 21 | That is probably why he needs to hold a general election , to get his clothes on the right way . |