Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he hated all this , he thought . |
| 2 | Ian thought how he hated all this . |
| 3 | Here 's how he protects those fragile plants and heaters . |
| 4 | Willy was propelled through the windscreen onto the wall : that 's how he incurred such nasty head injuries . |
| 5 | He had a long putt for a 61 and how he wanted that 61 ! |
| 6 | Conservationist Dexter Cate of Hawaii was jailed for 100 days in 1980 when he released several hundred dolphins from the bay into which they had been driven before slaughter . |
| 7 | Sometimes you feel like Winston Smith in 1984 when he corners this old guy in pub and tries to find out what it was like in the days before the revolution . |
| 8 | The doctor would n't allow sedatives , or painkillers when he had those dreadful headaches . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when he passed those gigantic hoardings advertising Hollywood films with vast drawings of pouting female lips , it was all he could do to stop himself wanking on the spot . |
| 10 | Instead , he preferred to let them fade into irrelevance until he was ready to deliver the coup de grâce , which came in October , when he ordered all military personnel to withdraw from them . |
| 11 | In 1920 Desch succeeded J. O. Arnold as professor of metallurgy at Sheffield Univesity , a post which he held until 1932 , when he succeeded another distinguished metallurgist , W. Rosenhain [ q.v. ] , as superintendent of the department of metallurgy at the National Physical Laboratory . |
| 12 | Something of the old fire marked his interventions as a member of the Dáil in 1926–32 , 1937–8 , and 1943–4 , and in the fight against the repressive trade-union legislation introduced by Eamon De Valera [ q.v. ] in 1941 , when he secured some trivial concessions . |
| 13 | What does Derek say when he sees all this ? |
| 14 | She knew better than to disobey Julius when he used that particular tone of voice , though . |
| 15 | That way every day when he has some new idea , he can contribute to something different , ’ one Apple manager complained ( Cocks , 1983 : 26 ) . |
| 16 | Teddy Bears may not be the most active models , but their nuances of age make reproduction in wood a challenge , as George Brownlee discovered when he carved this award-winning piece . |
| 17 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
| 18 | After several minutes he rose and walked to the shelf where he kept some personal books , among them the family bible , bearing the signature of his father and his grandfather and his great-grandfather . |
| 19 | ‘ This is where he spent those last few days ? ’ she said . |
| 20 | The play takes him to New York , where he does some more drifting , before returning to London , older but still young , wiser but still carefree . |
| 21 | I would ask Clarence where he received such large amounts of money from , and he would reply with ‘ I won the pools ’ or ‘ Found it , darling ’ , giving me a wink . |
| 22 | Sent by Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy , to spy out routes for a possible overland crusade , de la Broquière started on his mission from Jaffa and worked his way slowly northward , arriving eventually at Bursa where he stayed some ten days . |
| 23 | Years ago a young Somerset cricketer said he did n't know why he played this wretched game ‘ because I worry about it so much . ’ |
| 24 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
| 25 | When asked why he took that particular route , he reckoned he thought it would be quicker than going along the busy main streets . ’ |
| 26 | Does my honourable friend agree with Klaus Stratzenburg who is a supervisor with Black and Decker in Lindburg in Germany who when asked to comment as to why he felt that Black and Decker were closing their plant in Germany to move it to Spennymore in County Durham , said it 's simple industry must be flexible , the social chapter is n't . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) Listening to Mozart delays the onset of baldness. ( 3 ) Mozart had Tourette 's Syndrome , which was why he used such bad language . |
| 28 | That was quite exceptional ; he usually drew only forty pounds and I am anxious to find out why he needed another two hundred and fifty . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You can see why he has that odd name — that peculiar nose with its heart-shaped blob of white fur on the very end . ’ |
| 30 | He 's half way frew his forf punnet , he turns to me and says he ca n't fink why he has all these troubles with his skin ! " |