Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had left her imprint upon them , and now her mind overlapped with his whenever he wore the sacred lenses . |
| 2 | He tried once or twice before hopping to the farmhouse , wincing in pain whenever he jolted the injured ankle . |
| 3 | Instead , he gave Carter and his advisers a long talk on how he saw the international situation . |
| 4 | Watch how he scored the second — and that 's 3 goals in 3 games . |
| 5 | This , evidently , was how he viewed the ongoing crisis involving the NEA , which has been accused of using American tax dollars to subsidise morally offensive , even pornographic art ( see The Art Newspaper No. 17 , April 1992 , pp. 1 , 2 and 14 ) . |
| 6 | To understand Bukharin 's particular views on the transition period to socialism it is necessary to understand how he viewed the then current stage of capitalist development . |
| 7 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 8 | How he had the worst office space in the building , and the worst housing of all the embassy staff . |
| 9 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 10 | It seems that the potential of this new method was not realized in petrology for another forty years , for the first printed account did not appear until 1831 , in H. T. M. Witham 's Observations on Fossil Vegetables , when he published an account of how he prepared the many thin slices of fossil wood of which a microscopical description is furnished in the text . |
| 11 | Here he describes how he took the Caribbean by storm |
| 12 | Much would depend on Dulles 's mission and how he handled the thorny matters confronting him . |
| 13 | We have seen above how he conceptualised the joint stock company as a mere ‘ transitional ’ form , an unstable half-way house between capitalism and its abolition : this was because the joint stock form represented the socialisation of capital itself , which had to be a ‘ self-dissolving contradiction ’ . |
| 14 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 15 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |
| 16 | He supervised operations from a large warehouse at Greenwich on the Thames , whence he supplied the metropolitan market in particular . |
| 17 | India and Pakistan were hotly disputing ownership of the 1,500-mile Indus River in 1968 when he announced the UN-sponsored Indus Basin project to share water supplies for new power stations . |
| 18 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |
| 19 | In the spring of 1907 , when he began the preparatory sketches for the Demoiselles , Picasso was already establishing his reputation as one of the most outstanding of the younger figures in contemporary French painting . |
| 20 | President Mitterrand of France attended Papeete 's celebrations of 100 years as a municipality on May 16 , 1990 , when he told the local assembly that he would help the colonies " to erase the legacy of an underlying colonial past " . |
| 21 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
| 22 | Boy George caused terrific confusion and ambiguous squaddie stiffies when he became the archetypal 1982 pop star — cross-dressing , camp , six foot tall and sexy . |
| 23 | The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours . |
| 24 | It is argued that the Lamont onslaught had all the hallmarks of an embittered man seeking revenge , particularly as he chose the day when he knew the Prime Minister would be on the defensive , and needing all the support he could summon . |
| 25 | A further application in geomorphology was developed by Caine ( 1976 ) when he estimated the physical work in joules represented by different types of sediment movement . |
| 26 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 27 | Perot was also damaged by his own political naïveté , as for example on July 12 when he addressed the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — his first major campaign appearance before a black audience — and offended many in the audience by the insensitivity of his remarks , which included references to " you people " . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation . |
| 29 | Sometimes it worked , sometimes they simply shouted abuse , but his greatest success was when he addressed the Welsh League of Youth Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth in Welsh , having studied the language for just six weeks . |
| 30 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |