Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [Wh adv] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these , they owed service in the host with one knight ; they paid 300 s.bordelaises in relief at change of lord and they owed the king-duke a meal with ten attendant knights whenever he came to Gascony , at the castle of Redort . |
| 2 | Melanie pictured the safe , made of very black metal , set squarely at the end of the bed where he could see it all the time , in the strange bedroom where he slept with Aunt Margaret in a bed that must sag deeply on his side , since he was so heavy and she was no weight at all . |
| 3 | I tuned , intending to ask the English boy why he lived with me , why he liked my company . |
| 4 | The anonymous , pronoun-less protagonist is a ‘ colourless ’ man who divides his time between the shack where he lives with his wife and the Labour Exchange where he goes in search of employment . |
| 5 | Pete 's talk drifts towards dance music , an obvious passion , and countless interviews where he raged against people who view pop music as an art form . |
| 6 | In the large university where he teaches in Australia smoking is banned in all rooms , including common-rooms and refectories . |
| 7 | ‘ He veered across the road and went into the opposite lane where he collided with a transit van . ’ |
| 8 | Dick Corden dropped a bombshell on relegation-haunted Darlington when he resigned as chairman yesterday . |
| 9 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 10 | It follows , in my opinion , that the servant may , whilst in the employment of the master , be as agreeable , attentive , and skilful as it is in his power to be to others with the ultimate view of obtaining the benefit of the customers ' friendly feelings when he calls upon them if and when he sets up business for himself . |
| 11 | Suppose , he says , that Neil Armstrong 's famous words when he stepped on the surface of the moon had been ‘ one small step for a white ; one giant leap for whitekind ’ . |
| 12 | We reminisced about Robinson 's batting , which was not exactly the best on the county circuit , but he did have one great moment when he put on 144 for the last wicket with Arnie Sidebottom against Glamorgan at Cardiff . |
| 13 | The dashing , temperamental , beautifully groomed businessman with the sharp , irreverent wit and the sudden mood changes from light to stormy had disappeared one fateful day when he went into hospital for a routine prostate operation . |
| 14 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 15 | There were extraordinary scenes when he arrived at the LSE . |
| 16 | A twenty-five year old man suffered multiple injuries when he fell from a train which was moving at sixty five miles an hour . |
| 17 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 18 | Did Humphreys suffer his major injuries when he fell from the disc jockey 's platform at the Hippodrome , or in the streets later on when he fled from the ambulance and was restrained once more ? |
| 19 | The paper says Paul Gascoigne could be coming to Leeds United after his career in Italian football where he plays of course for Lazio the Rome based club . |
| 20 | For most of his forty years with the company , he worked in the Finishing Department where he began in 1950 . |
| 21 | His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins . |
| 22 | His neighbour always wore grey overalls when he went to work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |
| 25 | The former Spurs player installed high-security alarms when he moved into the villa with girlfriend and mother-of-two Sheryl Kyle . |
| 26 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 27 | ‘ She never told me about Shergold but it was common gossip how he felt about her , ’ he admitted at last . |
| 28 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 29 | The police say Father Gabriel Maire was the victim of a robbery attempt , but the Archbishop of Vitoria , the south-eastern Brazilian city where he worked in a slum parish , said he was killed because of his pastoral work . |
| 30 | Since Britten 's death in 1976 Sir Peter has continued to live at the Red House where he observes with sometimes amused and sometimes astonished eyes , the considerable development of the Britten-Pears Library and the Britten Archive . |