Example sentences of "matter [Wh adv] [adv] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting his face towards the barrow , which was still perhaps half a mile away in dramatic relief against the angry sky , he had the feeling that he was bring followed ; that wherever he went , and no matter how fast he covered the ground , his every move was shadowed . |
| 2 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 3 | No company would permit an unqualified accountant to audit its books , no matter how well he presents himself , and no patient would allow a doctor without qualifications to operate on him just because he has plenty of ‘ implied ’ ability . |
| 4 | Little that John le Grant said was ever reassuring , no matter how right he might be . |
| 5 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 6 | Most players like to have some relief but they know with him that no matter how much he is hurting he will go on . ’ |
| 7 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 8 | Endill wondered why he was n't enormously fat and wobbly but no matter how much he ate , Mould stayed the same shape . |
| 9 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 10 | She still did n't understand what he meant by all that , no matter how much he explained . |
| 11 | Iron Josh also had his instinct and it told him that , no matter how much he had tried to hide the fact that he was worried , Bertha had guessed . |
| 12 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 13 | No matter how much he 's paying . |
| 14 | Raking the comb through cropped curls that gleamed like polished mahogany , Polly tried to stifle her doubts and the nagging feeling that somehow she should have known there would be strings attached to Clive 's offer no matter how much he protested otherwise . |
| 15 | But no matter how much he twisted and turned , the Liverpool dynamo gave him no rest . |
| 16 | ‘ No , he was already married , you see , a marriage he could never escape from , no matter how much he might have wanted to . |
| 17 | She had no evidence to back it up , but in her heart she knew that Luke would never deal with a man like Martin , no matter how much he stood to gain from it . |
| 18 | A 20-year-old friend , Sheena Heffing , had put her son in the seat of a shopping trolley and refused to let him out no matter how much he squirmed . |
| 19 | It was unlikely that such luck would fall his way again no matter how long he waited . |
| 20 | No matter how long he lived in Paris , or how wild his life was , he retained a love for Eugenia and a sense of family honour that jibed awkwardly with the easy amorality of the crowd . |
| 21 | No matter how long he waited or how often he looked up to see who the latest arrival was , he knew in his heart of hearts it would n't be his son . |
| 22 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 23 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 24 | No matter how hard he pulled , from every angle , he could not lift the front cover . |
| 25 | Laidlaw 's hand was on his P220 automatic but he knew he could n't fire it , no matter how hard he tried . |
| 26 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 27 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |