Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he discovered a half-dead new lamb , he brought the creature into the hut . |
| 2 | In the context of a directed consideration of methodology in general , the explanation by a colleague of how he planned a particular exercise or sequence can be a greater source of stimulation than a high-level lecture by an educational pundit whose circumstances and limitations are not immediately clear . |
| 3 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 4 | Modern avionics items exhibit such a variety of failure modes and are so reliable that the tradesman often forgets how he cured a particular type of fault when he experiences another of the same type . |
| 5 | Michael pointed out how he had a long curve along the top of the board 's edge , and only a small curve at the bottom . |
| 6 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 7 | Henry II 's mistress , is told by CD in A Child 's History of England : ‘ It relates how the King doted on fair Rosamond … and how he had a beautiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock ; and how it was erected in a labyrinth , and could only be found by a clue of silk . |
| 8 | That 's how he shot a 74 . |
| 9 | He explains how he felt a tingling sensation down his left-hand side but did not immediately call for help . |
| 10 | How he kept a straight face Kath would never know . |
| 11 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 12 | Here he tells Neil Mulholland of the almost intolerable pressures of his work and how he survived a direct hit by a Mark 15 ‘ barrack buster ’ mortar on a border police station . |
| 13 | But one of the best stories in the Kelly collection concerns how he disrupted a social weekend in Northern Ireland for the former Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald . |
| 14 | TV REPORTER Michael Nicholson told last night how he smuggled a nine-year-old girl out of war-torn Yugoslavia and took her home to his family . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's my story , I lived it , ’ says Singleton , describing how he convinced a major studio to let an untried student director loose on a feature . |
| 16 | Relaxed and expansive in his office , explained how he used a local policeman to obtain details from 's criminal record on the police national computer . |
| 17 | Paul Dieppe explains how he used a Kuwaiti sports stadium to train for the London event . |
| 18 | Birchall recalls Le Mans practice last July when he noticed a tiny change in gearbox noise , even above the scream of the Krauser engine . |
| 19 | He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer . |
| 20 | These diverging tendencies in Nizan 's life-style , on the one hand a genuine aspiration towards a communist future , on the other hand a residual implication in a bourgeois past , were symptomatic of a " tension " in Nizan 's life and work at this time , a " tension " that was resolved only in late 1932 and early 1933 , when he became a permanent official entrusted with the task of compiling the weekly " notes de lecture " in L'Humanite and of supervising the party newspaper 's bookshop located at 120 rue Lafayette . |
| 21 | If , however , there is no attempt to copy a pattern , there is often more appreciation of shape in whatever is made — like the four-year-old who made a triangular shape from three strips and correctly named it , whilst another boy ( 3.9 ) named the second shape ( a square ) when he added a fourth strip to the original three . |
| 22 | He did not enter controversy again until 1623 when he produced a now-famous polemic book called The Assayer , acclaimed as the height of controversial writing . |
| 23 | Hutchison , the kid Dalglish signed from Hartlepool nearly two years ago , marked his European debut with the winner in the 69th minute when he sent a neat chip over the keeper after being fed by Steve McManaman . |
| 24 | As in the 1950s , when he played a similar role in the emergence of CND , he was primarily interested in a committee of notables lobbying the powerful , and had no intention of starting a mass movement . |
| 25 | First elected to Parliament in 1946 , Averoff later served in various ministerial capacities most notably as Foreign Minister in 1956-63 , when he played a key role in reaching agreement on Cyprus 's independence in 1960 . |
| 26 | One can see that , fanciful though the idea of the co-operative community is bound to look in the light of the later development of the Industrial Revolution , in 1814 when he wrote A New View of Society that idea would have seemed quite credible . |
| 27 | They had just turned into Bacon Street when he heard a loud voice calling to him and pulled sharply on the reins . |
| 28 | Payton who had only been on the field for six minutes put Celtic further ahead in the 66th minute when he accepted a left wing pass from Collins to shoot low into the net from six yards . |
| 29 | Kenneth Stanley from Telford could n't believe his eyes when he saw a gaping hole where his pond used to be . |
| 30 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |