Example sentences of "the [noun] [Wh adv] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1940 Joe was called into the RAF where he played in the band of Fighter Command with embryo jazz musicians like trumpeter Kenny Baker and reed player Aubrey Franks . |
| 2 | Only on the bit where he sings through a teapot ! |
| 3 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 4 | Leslie threw Garry across the kitchen where he fell against the fireplace . |
| 5 | However he broke the rules when he insisted on doing his national service with the RAF , before being allowed to complete his apprenticeship with Armstrong Siddeley . |
| 6 | There is no doubt Norman 's aggressive form of golf is one of the reasons why he appeals to galleries so much , but he might have to contain himself a bit more if he hopes to win on a more regular basis in the future . |
| 7 | Born in what was now Inner Mongolia , Ulanhu became one of the first Mongol members of the CCP when he joined in 1925 . |
| 8 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 9 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 10 | After a small glass of Cyprus sherry , Greg took his leave , amid pressing invitations to come back any time in the future when he felt like a chat . |
| 11 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bernard dug his hands into the pockets of his dressing-gown and moved to the window where he stared across the lawn at the empty swimming pool . |
| 14 | The most elaborate effects relate to ‘ Dr Frankenstein' and the lab where he dissects to little purpose . |
| 15 | Every afternoon Salah drove us in his jeep to a spring in the desert where he sat in the shade of the palm trees eating watermelon and smoking hashish while we swam . |
| 16 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 17 | When he thought of the law , his chosen profession , his head filled with the savour of dust ; he could taste it on his tongue , mousey and dry , and smell the foist of the archives where he had to pore over the huge books of cases , statutes , precedents . |
| 18 | Stewart 's workshop was a mud-brick hut near the pyramids where he worked with his two Egyptian assistants . |
| 19 | Tommy Sparks with his extremely efficient-looking staff , outside his Milford Street shop , in the days when he catered for men only . |
| 20 | Ika , however , had a brilliant command of English , to which he was to add proficiency in several other languages during the years when he practised as a noted paediatrician in Paris . |
| 21 | Some days after this conversation , Oliver was sitting in the room where he studied in the evenings . |
| 22 | They looked at him , then at the tracker where he squatted in his sheepskins with his brown hand tugging at his beard . |
| 23 | Then in August 1208 , when Innocent had found his way to the point where he wished to be in the dispute , the significant letters of 1205 – 6 were entered up . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 25 | The Abbot of Battle , John Hammond , took an annual pension of £100 , worth possibly £10,000 in our currency , almost tax-free to boot , and settled in the town where he died in the later 1540s . |
| 26 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 27 | The Italian front was the place where he volunteered to be an ambulance driver during the next year , and was badly wounded . |
| 28 | Donegal ; the other where he stood in the street . |
| 29 | Lord Donaldson , a former Master of the Rolls , who is to investigate tanker movements , will face demands for a full open inquiry into the grounding of the Braer when he arrives in Shetland on a fact-finding visit today . |
| 30 | After completing the airshow routine , John was on the homeward flight back to the UK when he ran into bad weather . |