Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know where , why or how he got that idea , ’ said 77-year-old Mr Hickman , recently honoured for 60 years of preaching . |
| 2 | He 's very insecure I do n't know how he got that way . |
| 3 | He was playing a Stratocaster and nobody else was , and he had that ‘ in-between ’ tone and everybody was trying to figure out how he got that sound . |
| 4 | There were scales I would hear in music and I used to think to myself , ‘ I need to learn that scale , ’ or , ‘ I need to learn how he got that effect using that scale with those chords , ’ and basically what Joe gave me was that sort of thinking . |
| 5 | I always attended their concerts to try and work out how he got this effect . |
| 6 | How he wished this animal were a fluffy spaniel ! |
| 7 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 8 | You do n't really know how he had this information . |
| 9 | He claims the shares are worth $125 , though how he chose this number is a mystery . |
| 10 | Barfield describes how he read this sentence , slapped down the book and shouted : ‘ I do n't believe it ! |
| 11 | I spoke to Michael at Adel and asked if he remembered how he felt that day forty years ago . |
| 12 | This is how he described that weekend in a book called A King 's Story : |
| 13 | Incidentally , Ron Atkinson was today praising Gary Speed , and saying how he is the most versatile player in the country since Paul Madeley , and how he tried several times this summer to sign him but was told no by Wilko every time . |
| 14 | How he obtained this skill is not recorded , but it may be significant that he visited Ravenna , where he befriended the poet Arator . |
| 15 | The 6ft 4ins striker was ‘ sentenced ’ to watch films of football 's Mr Nice Guy after a court heard how he broke another player 's jaw . |
| 16 | But perhaps you do n't remember how he hated that life , and what a state it got him into . |
| 17 | ( If he won , he would clear them off Oualie — how he coveted that island 's green streams and slopes ! ) |
| 18 | He decided that although the Prime Mover had granted his wish , it was up to him how he used that time ; but with his badly broken body there was little he could do . |
| 19 | He started young , encouraged by his father , and reached international level in 1976–8 when he played several times for his native France . |
| 20 | Keats when he wrote that poem and was lost in his immaterial dream breathed the same intoxicating air as Einstein did , and both knew the same profound excitement and sublime delight . |
| 21 | Rachmaninov was 17 when he wrote this work and the germs of his later facility and gift for appealing melody are already very evident . |
| 22 | The Minister can not duck the fact that , even in the years when he had some money from the Chief Secretary to dispose on our arts and cultural life , he deliberately chose not to unfreeze the purchase grants of the galleries . |
| 23 | Phillis thought perhaps , in a little time , when he had another doctor , then another dose of the meat . |
| 24 | Currie was still very much a leading figure within the SDLP when he made those remarks . |
| 25 | 3-3 when Gloucester 's Tim Smith landed his 400th penalty for the club and 6-3 when he kicked another minutes later … |
| 26 | Disabled Ron started it all off in 1990 when he planted some window boxes so his friend Robert McIver would have something attractive to look at outside his window . |
| 27 | No doubt she encouraged Mr Macmillan at a time when he needed some encouragement ; and there seemed little danger to the Constitution in this fact being revealed in 1973 to those readers of Sir Harold 's memoirs who had stayed the course through the Winds of Change , the Blast of War , and the Tides of Fortune to the End of the Day . |
| 28 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 29 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 30 | He said arrangements should have been made to actually take him to a medical officer and said he should not have been allowed to leave Comber and Newtownabbey RUC stations when he called that day . |