Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Prince Yuan was a clever one , there was no doubting it , so perhaps he understood why the T'ang had appointed him to oversee the Project rather than someone more sympathetic .
2 The more he was involved with Mauve , the more he saw how the man 's work drained him .
3 So now he knew where the mouse droppings had come from on Egan 's clothes .
4 Now he knew why the lights were out .
5 Sometimes he wondered why the superintendent asked him to research questions to which she already knew the answers .
6 Sometimes he wondered how the teachers could go on living , knowing this was to be their life , until the end .
7 Then he remembered how the Worm was said to feed off hatred .
8 Then he remembered how the policeman had hurried off after leaving him and Louise at the Astoria .
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