Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 2 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 3 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 4 | How he 'd eaten the cake to the very last crumb , |
| 5 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 6 | As it was , she forced down her sense of humour and began to explain what Joe had done , how he had blocked the holes and netted the gate and chased the hare out with Ferry . |
| 7 | Miss Trimm had talked about her son as an infant , how he had blessed the fishermen on Dynmouth Pier , how he had emerged from her womb without pain . |
| 8 | Not a man on board could guess how he had killed the others . |
| 9 | Basking in this praise , he went into considerable technical detail about how he had achieved the effect . |
| 10 | Asked how he had beaten the march of time Willis , 37 , would only say : ‘ Tricks of the trade . ’ |
| 11 | It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off . |
| 12 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 13 | He said how he had noticed the barometer as he passed through the sitting-room on his way to the kitchen where the meters were . |
| 14 | He tried to give talks on how he had prepared the plan , captured the Bookman and what he hoped to learn from him , but nobody paid any attention . |
| 15 | Jack describes how ‘ London Bach ’ had written pieces for his uncle and how he had searched the papers of the copyist for the originals . |
| 16 | The farmer explained how he had met the tiger and how , to save his oxen , he had promised the cow in exchange . |
| 17 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 18 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 19 | All he had to do now was to let Mr Hogan know how distressed Mrs Hogan was and how he had saved the day . |
| 20 | He tells me about how he had to leave a Walthamstow pub in embarrassment when he was asked to do some karaoke , and then asked for his autograph . |
| 21 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 22 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 23 | She wondered idly how he had occupied the evening , then felt her face burn at the memory of his low opinion of her . |
| 24 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 25 | That was how he had got the job , even though he was another unemployed nineteen year old . |
| 26 | Sutton , a former sub-editor on the Sunday Times colour magazine , explained how he had started the Post with only his faithful assistant Carmel Bedford , a former Sunday Times copytaker . |
| 27 | Ronnie 's story was splashed over the Sunday papers telling how he had bought the cabinet for fifty pounds from someone who walked into his shop . |
| 28 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 29 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 30 | ‘ He spoke about how he had appreciated the colleagueship of the Methodist pastor in Crackow and I was then able to say that there were indeed Methodists in Italy and the Protestant Church , although small in number is quite significant , particularly in its work among refugees and migrant workers . |