Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I should have warned you that regularly as clockwork , whenever he stays in this club , he checks if the haddock is finnan , if the skin around the black pudding is made of hog 's intestines and so on .
2 Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers .
3 Whenever he spoke of these matters it was with a flexibility and charity such as those holding views less firm did not always display .
4 The defendant who has a belief in consent will be acquitted no matter how he came by this belief and whether or not he considered the possibility of non-consent .
5 and I said to both of them , I just do n't know how he got past that second car in the road right , come out of his drive , I could n't believe that he could of done it , but he did , because he went you know
6 But I had learnt to understand how he felt from small things , mere comments he let slip , and from the tender power he demonstrated at night .
7 He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available .
8 Dating from 1911 they not only show how he moved towards complete abstraction but also his unflagging inventiveness .
9 When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’
10 What does a miner who has irreparable damage to his lungs and lives a miserable life say when he reads of huge awards of damages in libel actions ?
11 ‘ And 10 years when he goes to senior school , 20 years maybe , when he is getting married .
12 Hateley , whose football education included three seasons in France with Monaco , capped one of the bravest and most unlikely comebacks when he scored with seven minutes remaining to level the scores of this epic Group A encounter at two goals each .
13 Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’
14 ( There were times when he got in great positions and you wanted him to hammer the ball , but he 'd end up doing a sort of ‘ clip ’ shot . )
15 After completing the airshow routine , John was on the homeward flight back to the UK when he ran into bad weather .
16 He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’
17 By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier .
18 HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ .
19 He fearlessly attacked convention , which caused problems when he pitched into established reputations .
20 He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets .
21 Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards .
22 So it was not surprising that Col. Savill should have had an attentive and appreciative audience on 1 December 1989 , when he spoke on this subject .
23 Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down .
24 After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop .
25 Originally he worked from Shrewsbury on the Bristol run and then on the West Country routes when he moved to Old Oak Common , London .
26 The manifestations of Boltwood 's psychic powers started at the age of five when he talked to invisible people who turned out to be dead friends of his mother .
27 The first I 'll know , I expect , is when he walks through that door . ’
28 He has been with JM since September 1981 when he joined as Administrative Assistant in the Group Staff Department at the former Head Office in Southgate , North London .
29 CUSTOMERS and friends of Drew Muir , Manager at Laurencekrik Branch , presented him with a painting by local artist David Johnston when he retired after 34 years ' service .
30 ALLOA and Alva Grouping staff presented a cheque to Senior Manager Alex Reid when he retired after 43 years ‘ service .
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