Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whenever he hears the seasick bell … |
| 2 | Both the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister have made clear statements in the past 10 days that if the Scottish people vote for independence at the election , independence is what we shall have , but will the Secretary of State say a bit more today about how he answers the current argument about whether he has the right to run Scotland with nine Members of Parliament and , according to the latest poll , 18 per cent . |
| 3 | There now watch and see the how he misses the central reservation , those bollards . |
| 4 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 5 | Daily Telegraph cartoonist Nicholas Carland showing how he sees the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | The selectors , and Gooch himself , may see how he starts the English season or , ever the realist , he may just decide to go . |
| 7 | But , though it is heartening to find an Iranian writer bravely grappling with the problems of exile and turning a critical eye on the values of both his native and adopted countries , Mr Ataie will write better plays when he admits the theatrical importance of contradiction and argument . |
| 8 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 9 | What a top bloke — especially in the episode nicked off Star Trek when he plays the evil Brigadier with an eye patch from another dimension . |
| 10 | STEVE CRAM will make his debut at 5,000 metres next month when he becomes the first British athlete to compete in South Africa for almost 20 years . |
| 11 | CHRIS Balderstone will create history at Lord 's tomorrow when he becomes the first umpire to sit in judgement during a Test in England . |
| 12 | He suffers a first conflict of loyalties when he helps the strange man who calls himself Faraway Moses to escape from the Riders and learns that a confederacy is working in secret to reform a government that favours rich against poor , ‘ not with rifle and sword ’ , as the conspirator tells Dick , but : |
| 13 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 14 | That is what conductor Matthias Bamert has in store for the audience tonight when he leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Paul Hindemith 's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd . |
| 15 | It is there when Orwell calls the Left ‘ Bolshevik commissars , half gangster , half gramophone , escaped quakers , vegetarian cranks and back-room Labour party crawlers ’ , or when he dismisses the Marxist dialectic as an argumentative Pea-and-thimble trick ; there again when Waugh reviews Stephen Spender 's flatulent autobiography World within World ( 1951 ) : |
| 16 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 17 | Old Sandy at Crossapol , with a fierce mane of white hair like Bertrand Russell , still ‘ fumes ’ when he remembers the eight innocent Tiree men arrested in 1886 at a Land League meeting at Balephuil . |
| 18 | Mr Major will himself face party activists when he addresses the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen tomorrow . |
| 19 | Mr Major will himself face party activists when he addresses the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen tomorrow . |
| 20 | But there is a more cheerful day ahead for him next Tuesday when he introduces the last Question of Sport in the present series . |
| 21 | Will he also tell us when he expects the nuclear levy , which is still rising , to start to fall in the light of this morning 's results from Nuclear Electric ? |
| 22 | This is where he meets the beautiful Estella for the first time . |
| 23 | Now I 'm ha I 'm handing round a summary of last week 's lecture , which I hope will make more sense of it , and I have here , if anybody wants to borrow it , a Xerox of chapter three in Dorkins ' book where he explains the Blind Watchmaker , and the manual for the disk . |
| 24 | One such poem is by Wordsworth , where he repeats the old legend that if anyone approaches the Isle of Man to do it harm , a mist springs up and hides the Island . |
| 25 | I do n't know where he puts the bad ones . |
| 26 | Anderson 's occasional bursts of verbosity implicate a sudden urge to speak on a particular topic and this is most noticeable in scene four where he surprises the two footballers , Broadbent and Crisp , with a turn of 86 words giving unsolicited advice on the Czech team 's tactics ( p. 59 ) . |
| 27 | Here he spells out why he thinks the British monarchy 's days are numbered . |
| 28 | It often stings a man into awareness , which is partly why he fears the feminine so much . |
| 29 | I know why he likes the photographing business . |
| 30 | For the chinless chap in his chalk-stripe blue suit , strolling to wherever he performs the daily ritual of being ‘ something in the City ’ , or the geezer negotiating the early morning traffic in from Romford in his late model Ford and Italian sweatshirt , their individual style says clearly : I am here and this is where I want to be , you can tell exactly what and where that is from looking at me . |