Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dempsey , oh , cos by the wall , right , and you know how he digs up the floor |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How he worked out the details of this path emerged in his debate with the opposition , particularly Preobrazhensky , in the mid-1920s . |
| 4 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 5 | Some weeks later he was sleeping off the effects of alcohol beside the Tweed River when he rolled down the bank , into the river , and was drowned . |
| 6 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 7 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
| 8 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |
| 9 | Valuev had been critical of the ecclesiastical hierarchy since at least 1855 , when he asked why the church needed the physical force of the state to prevent schism and re-convert dissenters . |
| 10 | Reductions depend on what death benefit already applies under the policy , how old the policyholder was when he took out the policy , how old he is now and when the pension is to be taken . |
| 11 | The first , wearing a traditional Burmese longyi , or sarong , and carrying an umbrella and a briefcase , was thoroughly searched by Thai security forces when he came down the plane steps . |
| 12 | Mr Major 's claim to have emerged from the shadow of his predecessor will be tested in July when he takes over the presidency of the EC for six months . |
| 13 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 14 | Mm I mean , you know when he gave up the drink |
| 15 | But the apex of his career was that afternoon in 1966 when he hoisted aloft the World Cup for England . |
| 16 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 17 | It was night when he turned down the A1120 , drove through Yoxford and continued along the winding country road . |
| 18 | But Kirkwood , who was a particularly dejected figure after Monday 's decisive 1-0 defeat by Canada , injected some pride back into Irish ranks in the dying seconds when he flicked home the winner . |
| 19 | In Burma , where he had only the British Colonial Office and colonial administrators to deal with , he was more or less able to have his way . |
| 20 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |
| 21 | Anderson , shaken by what he has seen , returns to the hotel where he finds out the result of the match — a heavy defeat for England — from two English sports journalists ( Grayson and Chamberlain ) in rooms adjacent to his ( scene seven ) . |
| 22 | He ran along the carpeted passage and into the drawing-room where he picked up the phone without speaking . |
| 23 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |