Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 2 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 3 | So he held firm and , after the decisive vote on paragraph 21 of chapter 3 of Lumen Gentium , noted late at night : These rather scrappy notes , jotted down late at night on 22 September 1964 take us to the heart of Paul VI , and illustrate how he saw his Petrine ministry in relation to the ministry of other bishops . |
| 4 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 5 | Cos he he really does it , I do n't know how he does it really , how he gets it all level like that . |
| 6 | Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk on the 18th-century British soldier at home and how he spent his spare time . |
| 7 | He did n't care how he got his own way as long as his own way was what he got . |
| 8 | Maybe that was how he got his own way ? |
| 9 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 10 | Sam West explains how he disliked his own performance at first , but now realises it 's a special film . |
| 11 | That was how he built something extra into the programme . ’ |
| 12 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 13 | Your students will be absorbed by the adventures of Peter : how he copes with the problems of learning English and the hostility of his classmates , and how he discovers his true identity . |
| 14 | Sir Henry had told me how he gave his old clothes to Barrymore . |
| 15 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 16 | No prizes for guessing who Ian Chapman , the publisher sacked by Rupert Murdoch when he took over William Collins , was referring to yesterday when he launched his new company . |
| 17 | They were eleventh in Division Four when he began his managerial career as a frowned-upon caretaker twelve months ago . |
| 18 | He did not accept it until 1909 when he became its proclaimed prophet . |
| 19 | Even Sal and Kitty turned up their noses when he offered them such delicacies as black bananas and bruised apples . |
| 20 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |
| 21 | The ball from Gascgoine to Ball the other night when he scored his great goal was a little dink just over the top , outside of his fort and it was a little one over the top of there was n't it ? |
| 22 | The moment for which Archie will always be remembered by Palace fans was when he scored our fourth and conclusive goal after a marvellous run from the centre-circle to defeat the FA Cup-holders , Wolves ( 4–2 ) in a thrilling replay up at the old Crystal Palace in January 1909 . |
| 23 | O'Connor consumed by emotion , burst into tears in front of thousands of delirious supporters when he consolidated his marvellous recovery against Freddie Couples with a No. 2 iron to five feet at the last . |
| 24 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 25 | He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious , her neck in a ligature . |
| 26 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 27 | Next season , when he made his sole first-class century ( 101 against WA at Perth ) , he played in the second Test against South Africa , at Melbourne , and took four wickets . |
| 28 | The value of the firm 's shares , which had been 50/ when he made his generous ‘ F.S.T. ’ gesture , fell steadily from 1920 onwards until they reached 3/6 in 1927 and then went down to 1/8 in 1931 . |
| 29 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 30 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |