Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins . |
| 2 | Off the field , he conducted himself with the same composure and dignity as he did whenever he pulled on the white shirt of England or the claret and blue of West Ham . |
| 3 | This appeal is by the local authority , with the leave of the judge , from an order made by Sir Gervase Sheldon , sitting as an additional judge of the High Court , on 20 December 1991 , whereby he granted to the foster mother , who had been the foster mother of four children in the care of the local authority , leave to apply for a residence order in respect of those children . |
| 4 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 5 | A FIREMAN told yesterday how he plunged into the blazing wreckage of a motorway pileup to save a trapped lorry driver . |
| 6 | My father would explain how he dreamed about the ill and how , for instance , in the case of Bobby Bowen 's hand , paralysed after a pit accident , he 'd worked on the fingers for days without success until , in a dream , the answer had come . |
| 7 | He was educated at Batley Grammar School whence he went to the Royal College of Science in London in 1912 . |
| 8 | Apart from a short break for the war years , when he served in the Royal Navy , Staveley has sailed and campaigned throughout , presently racing in his Dragon . |
| 9 | However , it looked as though the talents of Prost were to be rewarded in 1983 when he went into the final race of the season at Kyalami with four wins to his credit and a two-point lead over Nelson Piquet . |
| 10 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |
| 11 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 12 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 13 | Although his family remained Ainsworthians , Offwood subsequently joined the Dutch Reformed Church , and there he stayed until 18 April 1629 , when he moved to the English Reformed Church of Amsterdam — a congregation affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church , pastored by John Paget [ q.v. ] and composed of a combination of ex-Separatists and Puritans . |
| 14 | For him the high point of the ceremony was when he stood before the empty but impressive tomb of Cyrus the Great and addressed it grandiloquently in his flat , featureless voice . |
| 15 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 16 | AN alleged IRA gunman wore nothing but a pair of boxer shorts when he appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murder . |
| 17 | His followers sold out the Hammersmith Odeon before any major label knew who he was , and more recently , when he appeared on the black talent show The 291 Club simply to present an award , he received the kind of reception you 'd expect for the ghost of Marvin Gaye . |
| 18 | Mr Boateng attracted some notoriety recently when he appeared on the front page of the News of the World wearing nothing but a G-string . |
| 19 | The best demonstration of the quality of Harry Collyer came in the 1909–10 season when he appeared in the English International Trial match . |
| 20 | Allison claims to have started the idea in 1978 when he worked at the Clinical Research Centre in Harrow . |
| 21 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 22 | He said the house where he lived in the fashionable Perth suburb of Dalkeith , built for about £530,000 , was owned by a trust , and the beneficiaries were his children . |
| 23 | In an attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli crisis , the Highland Light Infantry sent Docherty to Palestine , where he played for the British Army XI . |
| 24 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 25 | He was engaged by ( Sir ) Herbert Beerbohm Tree [ q.v. ] to act in Australia , where he played in The Eternal City , 1903–5 , and returned to London with 100 parts ready for performance . |
| 26 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |
| 27 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 28 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 29 | Impressed by the Method masters ' formidable screen and stage presence , Allen left fringe theatre for New York , where he studied at the famous Strasberg Institute ( former pupils include Marilyn Monroe and Method 's godfather Brando ) and worked by night as a doorman at the fashionable club , Nell 's , ’ to pay the rent ’ . |
| 30 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |