Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something of a shock to him to realize how fond of the little boy he had become . |
| 2 | The rain had almost stopped , but various projections over the pavement in Fleet Street dripped on Dyson as he passed , wetting the lenses of his spectacles and making it difficult for him to see where he was going . |
| 3 | It gladdened him to see how even these degraded surroundings were touched by a curious beauty , as he watched the little gangs of miners making their way home , black as sweeps , in the white snow at twilight . |
| 4 | It amused him to see how the gullible idiot deferred to him , even when they were in the midst of a vicious argument . |
| 5 | An individual manager can be placed on the grid , and his position on the grid should help him to see how his performance as a leader and a manager can be improved . |
| 6 | She regretted that it was too dark for him to see how beautiful she had tried to make herself , even using malachite as well as the usual galena . |
| 7 | Having been reassured on this point , he had grudgingly accepted Ellen 's explanation that she had been given leave to visit him to see how he was coping alone , and had promptly put his daughter and her companion to work . |
| 8 | She would have hated him to see how her hands shook as she spooned the coffee into the mugs , overdid the sugar and had to start again . |
| 9 | We were able to throw no end of different tasks at him to see how he responded to those . |
| 10 | It 's like putting a blind man in a fast car and telling him to drive where and how he likes . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't want him to know where I was . ’ |
| 12 | Because the hypnotherapist is present the whole time and observing the patient 's reactions , it is also possible for him to know when to introduce the detachment technique which will ensure that no distress is suffered . |
| 13 | I am very bitter about it and want him to know how I feel . |
| 14 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
| 15 | It gratified him to discover how popular his singing was . |
| 16 | Develop this approach as the heart of any teaching you do : it stresses the visual and auditory side of spelling for the pupil , and also helps him to understand how the patterns of spelling work . |
| 17 | Perhaps the hon. Lady should go for a tutorial with him to understand how VAT is collected . |
| 18 | The Commissioner pointed out that it was not for him to decide how statutes should be interpreted but he was satisfied that the complaints about odours from the factory had not been ignored . |
| 19 | She was also telling him to stay where he was . |
| 20 | A police-sergeant told him to stay where he was . |
| 21 | It amused him to think how much Maggie and Eileen Arbuthnot had in common , with their rooted prejudices . |
| 22 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |
| 23 | It is up to him to ascertain how far he wishes to travel and by what route . |
| 24 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 25 | Wednesday could tell Endill was upset and eventually persuaded him to explain why . |
| 26 | If , as the Minister says , we recouped so much money on the Gulf war , may I ask him to explain why the Ministry of Defence is being so mean and tight-fisted towards some of those who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice during that war ? |
| 27 | There are also various products incorporating magnets , and one is currently being marketed by the Real McKoi , a company advertising in PFK — give Ray Talbot a ring and ask him to explain how it works . |
| 28 | I asked him to explain how the Area relates to the rest of the University . |
| 29 | They must carbon-date it and put it under the microscope , and we must examine Aziz carefully and get him to say where he found it . |
| 30 | Or is he to show how difficult he finds them ? |