Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 2 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 3 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 4 | Whenever he spoke to the woman he regretted that he had not stamped his authority and demanded that Gwen should be released from Leconfield and transferred with him , but they had said in Century 's personnel that he must have a secretary who knew the ropes of the Service , and he had acquiesced . |
| 5 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 6 | She waited as he pointed up the quay , bursting to ask how he knew about the Quakers , let alone where they met . |
| 7 | So that 's how he knew about the grain . |
| 8 | We were asking Fish Sparks as we call him how he knew about the fish that swims up your pee and he said he 'd seen some fat explorer fellow on the box going on about it , which sounded likely enough . |
| 9 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 10 | She also has a story of how he disappeared during the dress rehearsal of a performance by Miss Webb 's pupils , to be found later ‘ in the wings , sitting perched on a pedestal , in a dream world of his own ’ . |
| 11 | With particular pride he notes how in the crisis of 1124 , when the king of England and the emperor were allied against him , and Henry V planned an attack on Rheims , Louis put himself dramatically under the protection of St Denis , ‘ the special patron and singular protector after God of the kingdom ’ ; how he came to the saint and begged him to defend his kingdom , preserve his person and resist his enemies , as the saint was accustomed to do . |
| 12 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 13 | Seb did not want a light to show Carrie how he got down the stairs . |
| 14 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 15 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 16 | ‘ You none of you know how he died in the workhouse and was buried in a pauper 's grave ? ’ |
| 17 | You heard for yourself how he sounded on the phone ; he said he 'll be down . |
| 18 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 19 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 20 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 21 | I asked Dr Ian Rolfe , now at Chambers Street Museum , how he felt about the selling of fossils . |
| 22 | When asked by a reporter how he felt about the prospect , he admitted , ‘ I 'm shitting myself . ’ |
| 23 | You can read about how he survived in the letters he wrote to his wife , published here by Faber as Letters To Olga . |
| 24 | I wonder how he performed on the potty ? |
| 25 | I asked him how he coped with the summer traffic on the twisting single track roads . |
| 26 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 27 | He went on around the block , again and again , until a space opened up in a barely-lit alley and he slipped the car in ahead of a Mercedes driver who , to judge from how he leaned on the horn , was well along the way to a heart condition . |
| 28 | Asked how he reacted to the distribution of 10,000 copies of the pamphlet to Winchester parents , staff , old boys , MPs , peers and the Press , Lord Aldington said : ‘ Horror . |
| 29 | Then in the account of how the risen Lord Jesus Himself drew near and walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 verses 13/31 ) we read of how He explained from the scriptures that all the events surrounding His crucifixion had been foreshadowed and foretold in the Word of God . |
| 30 | Talking about Jack , it was how he talked about Bert , how he talked about the men with whom he had this particular relationship : admiring , dependent , you could say passive … but who was it now who set the pace , making Bert go to Ireland , making Jack take them ? |