Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 2 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 3 | In the dark she could ignore how he repelled her in the light . |
| 4 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 5 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 6 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 7 | What , cast the poor remains into the Severn when he took them from the grave ? ’ |
| 8 | He was only 15 when he hanged himself in the hospital wing of Swansea Prison hours after being found guilty in court . |
| 9 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 10 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 11 | Morton Pitt added rooms on the south elevation in 1823 when he converted it into the ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL . |
| 12 | The benefits of this system can be demonstrated by the example of the trader who carted a crate of whetstones from Craven Arms , or possibly from Stony Stratford , to Wroxeter for a market day , where he found himself in the company of other merchants selling mortaria as well as samian ware from Gaul . |
| 13 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 14 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
| 15 | I think you 're all reading too much into the Morrissey thing as to why he wrapped himself in the Union Jack , I think he was probably just cold … |