Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 2 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 3 | It was getting to the point that whenever he saw a policeman sauntering along the crowded streets he chose for his phone calls his stomach turned over . |
| 4 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 5 | It 's just that whenever he gets a letter from her , he wo n't open it . |
| 6 | The same meticulous concentration appeared whenever he wrote a letter to the local paper . |
| 7 | In the college at Durham they saw him , as they thought , learning to ride a bicycle ; but the truth was that whenever he rode a bicycle he looked as though he was learning to ride . |
| 8 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 9 | The Profitboss has the positive psychology of all successful people , a psychology which releases a surge of adrenalin whenever he experiences a setback or faces a seemingly insurmountable problem . |
| 10 | Consequently , and this was of critical significance for all those who were concerned about the various aspects of the youth question , ‘ His education , which is the means whereby he becomes a citizen , is thus one of the State 's foremost concerns . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But he has a system now whereby he selects a side to suit a particular game . |
| 12 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 13 | The glory dwindled into a nuisance , a practical difficulty , since that was how he saw a child . |
| 14 | A witness in the Akers Way trial has told how he saw a car flip over and land upside down in a hedge in the crash in which five young people were killed . |
| 15 | That 's how he achieved a sound way ahead of its time . |
| 16 | One 18-year-old insurance clerk from Birchfield explained how he reached a sort of cross-road after his training began to detract from his studies : ‘ I came to the conclusion that my career came first and , at 18 , I had to look at my prospects . |
| 17 | It was difficult to know whether she had understood everything he had tried to explain to her about his being involved in a case in which she was the chief witness , about his career , and how he had a mother and sister to support . |
| 18 | His spiritualist interest began in late teens , and colours much of the work — notably an interesting poetic story about how he made a promise with a friend that whichever of them was first to the ‘ other side ’ would attempt to communicate to the other — and how it happened . |
| 19 | Somewhere out there Michael Wayland is saying to his wife , ‘ God , when what's-that-man's-name began telling that enormously long story about how he made a fool of himself crawling round the floor on his hands and knees , which he obviously found so funny , I thought I 'd die . ’ |
| 20 | That was how he made a living after he lost his job on the railway , through drink and petty pilfering . |
| 21 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 22 | In a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin Wolfgang described how he attended a ball that evening , at which the cream of Bohemian society , including a bevy of attractive ladies , was present . |
| 23 | Mark Paul yesterday re-enacted for a jury how he killed a stranger with a single blow from a baseball bat . |
| 24 | A police frogman has told a court how he found a woman 's body at the bottom of the River Severn . |
| 25 | Accusations were shouted particularly against Energy Minister Nicholas Biwott when he attended a memorial service on Aug. 22 . |
| 26 | In 1992 the two countries had agreed to exchange Bank of China and Korean Exchange Bank officials and , in April , Lee Sang Ock had become the highest-ranking South Korean to visit China when he attended a meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Beijing . |
| 27 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 28 | The identity badge and pass issued to Coleman in 1987 when he taught a course in audio and video surveillance at the National Intelligence Academy in Fort Lauderdale , Florida . |
| 29 | Bush for his part did not refer to them as " hostages " until Aug. 20 , when he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that the Iraqi attack on Kuwait was " a ruthless assault on the very essence of international order and civilized ideals " , and condemned the detention of hostages for having violated " all norms of international behaviour " as well as the tenets of Islam and traditions of Arab hospitality . |
| 30 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |