Example sentences of "[Wh adv] was he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How was he ? ’ his wife Sarah asked , rather too quickly . |
| 2 | The question was , how was he to do it without arousing suspicion ? |
| 3 | How was he going to do it ? |
| 4 | How was he going to turn the conversation round to the subject of poison ? |
| 5 | How was he going to make this phone call ? |
| 6 | Then followed the more practical thought ‘ If Allen could n't see it , how was he to hunt it ? ’ |
| 7 | How was he to interpret these events ? |
| 8 | How was he to know that she was up to some sort of mischief ? |
| 9 | ‘ How was he ? ’ |
| 10 | How was he to face her ? |
| 11 | Ruth , please , how was he hurt ? |
| 12 | How was he to dig it out ? |
| 13 | ‘ How was he ? ’ |
| 14 | That on the one hand he felt that to do so would be a betrayal , and on the other , an impossibility : how was he to find another woman as pure , as mysteriously beautiful ? |
| 15 | How was he to know , he mused , that murder smelled of honeysuckle ? |
| 16 | ‘ And how was he ? ’ |
| 17 | How was he ? ’ |
| 18 | How was he going to put it ? |
| 19 | ‘ And how was he dressed ? ’ |
| 20 | And how was he looking ? ’ |
| 21 | He had almost considered not buying the house , but it was what he wanted , and how was he to know that things would be any different in another district ? |
| 22 | It had been tricky enough for him to help the women to whom he had no commitment even though he felt the deepest pity for them , but to help McAllister , whom he loved so dearly — how was he to do that ? |
| 23 | ‘ But Theda , how was he to know ? ’ |
| 24 | How was he staying up there ? thought Robert . |
| 25 | How was he going to take the news of the hijacking of earthling bodies by extraterrestrial beings ? |
| 26 | How was he to react ? |
| 27 | Why had Blake arrived seventy years later than planned , and how was he going to return home ? |
| 28 | ‘ So how was he poisoned ? ’ |
| 29 | I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ? |
| 30 | ‘ How was he ? ’ asked Rachel , pleased that Jimmy seemed to have gone to the hospital again of his own accord . |