Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 2 | ( Quite how he had come by this weapon , since it was cast into the lake at the conclusion of that great king 's reign , is not recorded ! ) |
| 3 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 4 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 5 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |
| 6 | The situation had too many of the elements of a farce about it , and he wondered briefly why he had agreed to such a scheme . |
| 7 | On his return , he found that people were curious about why he had opted for such a tough mountain . |