Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Henry had told me how he gave his old clothes to Barrymore . |
| 2 | Even Sal and Kitty turned up their noses when he offered them such delicacies as black bananas and bruised apples . |
| 3 | He has an unshakeable self-confidence , which no doubt dates back to when he sold his first paintings at nine years old , these early Koonses going for hundreds of dollars in Henry J Koons Interiors , his father 's furniture store in a small town in Pennsylvania . |
| 4 | He occasionally uses his verbal felicity as a means of protecting his negative face , just as he does when he makes his ethical arguments for turning down Hollar 's request deliberately complex . |
| 5 | Mr Cordial has been a member of the health authority since 1990 when he decided his previous duties with Yorkshire Regional Health Authority were taking up too much time travelling from his home in Barton . |
| 6 | Christo has cherished a vision of wrapping the Reichstag in military silver , flame-retardant fabric since 1971 , when he created his first studies for the project . |
| 7 | Thus , the Aberdeen report in his book , however he anticipated his Hebridean travels , is the largest so far , with St Andrews a close second : his longest passages are naturally reserved for Skye and the islands . |
| 8 | In 1908 he became assistant works manager and chief draughtsman at the French Westinghouse Company 's brake and signal works in Paris , where he had his first contacts with French railway engineers . |
| 9 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 10 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 11 | He then retired to a small property near Ryde on the Isle of Wight , where he spent his later years carrying out improvements to the grounds and where he died 14 February 1853 . |
| 12 | He would go to Famagusta , where he thought his Genoese friends would help him . |
| 13 | After about 2 miles , Sir Robert Hamilton chose a position on the muir where he thought his amateur troops might have a strategic advantage . |
| 14 | He went to Illinois in the United States of America , from where he summoned his closest followers ( from Santa Cruz , Santo da Serra and Machico ) , whose descendants still live in that state , especially in Springfield and Jacksonville . |
| 15 | In 1943 he retired to Somerset , where he maintained his wide interests , which included Japanese prints , Chinese porcelain , biologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and wine : he retained a personal cellar at Caius , which he visited annually . |
| 16 | He travelled back by way of Westbury-on-Trym , where he paid his personal thanks to the Wedgwood brothers at Cote House . |