Example sentences of "he [vb past] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allan said when he realised how the football disaster , which claimed 95 lives , had left his son . |
| 2 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 3 | He asked why the council would not accept orange badge drivers having total access during the scheme 's six month trial period . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He asked why the parish council were so against the signs ‘ Do the parish have an official policy , because if they do , they should think again about the effect it has on the village . ’ |
| 6 | Brushing aside our thanks he asked when the anniversary was . |
| 7 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 8 | Leeson had hoped that his imagination had exaggerated the resemblance , but he saw when the girl walked in that it had n't . |
| 9 | He saw where the smoke had discoloured the facings of his coat , and wrinkled his nose . |
| 10 | At the Battle of Stirling Bridge , he took the field against Wallace but , when he saw how the battle was proceeding , changed sides once more and shared in the Scottish victory . |
| 11 | He saw how the boy froze — how his face grew rigid with fear — and reached out to hold his arm . |
| 12 | The more he was involved with Mauve , the more he saw how the man 's work drained him . |
| 13 | Ranulf studied the painting curiously and felt a shiver of apprehension as he saw how the sinners were thrust into hot ovens , cauldrons of boiling oil , or broken on huge revolving cartwheels . |
| 14 | I wound down the window and asked him if he knew where the dolmen was . |
| 15 | After they ordered , Wickham toyed with a table knife and told her that he knew where the ones which had been sent to her and Tavett had come from . |
| 16 | But he 'd made sure he knew where the quarry lived . |
| 17 | So now he knew where the mouse droppings had come from on Egan 's clothes . |
| 18 | He was familiar with the mortuary , and he knew where the body he had last seen lying in the mud would be . |
| 19 | Now he knew why the lights were out . |
| 20 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 21 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 22 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 23 | Extending his psychic sense of presence , he felt how the battle inside Vasilariov was congealing , slowing and centring desperately about fifteen kilometres north of the hotel . |
| 24 | Prince Yuan was a clever one , there was no doubting it , so perhaps he understood why the T'ang had appointed him to oversee the Project rather than someone more sympathetic . |
| 25 | IPSWICH Town team manager Mick McGiven said he understood why the fans booed his side off the field after their worst display of the season at Portman Road last night . |
| 26 | He looked where the vole was pointing and suddenly remembered the place . |
| 27 | He smiled whenever the name was used . |
| 28 | He remembered where the saints had lain , and where the altars had stood ; he remembered the old confusion of secular and ecclesiastical affairs , and the use of the south porch as the place where pleas were settled which could get no solution in hundred or shire or royal court . |
| 29 | He remembered when the changes had started . |
| 30 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |