Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 2 | Birth of a legend Author Jack Higgins , right , tells how he came to write The Eagle Has Landed |
| 3 | The poem is some 5500 tines long , but the first 2000 are Hoccleve 's personal introduction , purporting to explain how he came to write the rest . |
| 4 | Tennyson explaining how he came to write the Idylls of the King is another . |
| 5 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 6 | How he 'd eaten the cake to the very last crumb , |
| 7 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 8 | Cover up … how he planned to burn the evidence . |
| 9 | As it was , she forced down her sense of humour and began to explain what Joe had done , how he had blocked the holes and netted the gate and chased the hare out with Ferry . |
| 10 | Miss Trimm had talked about her son as an infant , how he had blessed the fishermen on Dynmouth Pier , how he had emerged from her womb without pain . |
| 11 | Not a man on board could guess how he had killed the others . |
| 12 | Basking in this praise , he went into considerable technical detail about how he had achieved the effect . |
| 13 | Asked how he had beaten the march of time Willis , 37 , would only say : ‘ Tricks of the trade . ’ |
| 14 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 15 | He tried to give talks on how he had prepared the plan , captured the Bookman and what he hoped to learn from him , but nobody paid any attention . |
| 16 | Jack describes how ‘ London Bach ’ had written pieces for his uncle and how he had searched the papers of the copyist for the originals . |
| 17 | The farmer explained how he had met the tiger and how , to save his oxen , he had promised the cow in exchange . |
| 18 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 19 | All he had to do now was to let Mr Hogan know how distressed Mrs Hogan was and how he had saved the day . |
| 20 | She wondered idly how he had occupied the evening , then felt her face burn at the memory of his low opinion of her . |
| 21 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 22 | That was how he had got the job , even though he was another unemployed nineteen year old . |
| 23 | Sutton , a former sub-editor on the Sunday Times colour magazine , explained how he had started the Post with only his faithful assistant Carmel Bedford , a former Sunday Times copytaker . |
| 24 | Ronnie 's story was splashed over the Sunday papers telling how he had bought the cabinet for fifty pounds from someone who walked into his shop . |
| 25 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 26 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 27 | ‘ He spoke about how he had appreciated the colleagueship of the Methodist pastor in Crackow and I was then able to say that there were indeed Methodists in Italy and the Protestant Church , although small in number is quite significant , particularly in its work among refugees and migrant workers . |
| 28 | He spoke of how he had established the sex of the larger skeleton . |
| 29 | Beaming all over his face he related how he had told the mother congregation that he had woken up so happy … bursting with joy and excitement at the birth of a new baby … and they should be happy too ! |
| 30 | When he told them how he had thrown the Bible , Mrs Wood gave a little scream . |