Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together . |
| 2 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 3 | It reminded her how he had given her naked body that same assessment in the shower last night . |
| 4 | How he had passed his medical tests was a mystery to everybody ; he was completely incapable of marching in time and swung his arms like a chimpanzee , unsynchronised and out of time . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 6 | Heartbroken Tim Godwin weeps as he tells how he had to tell his 23-month-old daughter Sophie : ‘ Mummy is n't coming back ’ . |
| 7 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 8 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |
| 9 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 10 | Since when he 'd left her alone again , and Dolly was having to put up with the April breeze . |
| 11 | There he wrote Valentino : an Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century , published in 1885 , the year when he ceased to hold his diplomatic office . |
| 12 | Moses was 40 when he tried to strike his first blow for freedom ( 2:11–12 ) , which ended in disaster . |
| 13 | Seattle-born Randy Hansen saw Hendrix live on stage once and only this once , but he 's by no means vaunting the experience as his single turning point , the moment when he decided to devote his playing life to Jimi 's music . |
| 14 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 15 | We were proud to welcome Wayne C. Fairbrother who survived after 188 days wandering round a Birmingham multi-storey car park trying to remember where he had left his blue Sierra . |
| 16 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 17 | He forgot to take his ten pence out of the slot where he 'd had it ready , and he 'd left a pile of tens and fives sitting on top of the directories . |
| 18 | His anger barely contained , like a storm in a bottle , Joe walked the distance back to where he 'd left his rented car . |
| 19 | ‘ So , we 're gon na see where he tried to get his wicked way with Nicola , are we ? ’ |
| 20 | I asked him why he 'd lost his own teeth and he said the cause had been pyorrhea . |
| 21 | I thought that was why he began to type his own notes , you see . |
| 22 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 23 | Her voice rose , as she thought she realised why he had kissed her earlier . |
| 24 | He wondered why he had felt it important to speak Harry 's name . |
| 25 | The only question , in fact , was where his father had gone , why he had left him alone . |