Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 2 | He tried to imagine how the boy would look now that he was nine . |
| 3 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 4 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 5 | By the end of the day he had not only helped to further that cause ; by showing outstanding courage and skill in arms in the thick of the fighting he had shown how the knight could use situations of war to win personal renown for himself . |
| 6 | He wanted to know where the strimmer was , he was |
| 7 | And he wanted to know why the books were there and . |
| 8 | He wanted to know how the land lay . |
| 9 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |