Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 2 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
| 3 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 4 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 5 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 6 | The only time he 's actually been in London was a few years ago , when he accompanied me on a poll tax demonstration . |
| 7 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 8 | He began seeing a Hollywood writer , Florrie Christmas , whom he took to Jamaica , where he drank himself into a stupor daily . |
| 9 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | With an introduction from Rhys I enjoyed several interesting meetings with Corliss Lamont in New York , where he presented me with a copy of his book ‘ You Might Like Socialism ’ . |