Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb past] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Ross , Johnnie Walker chairman , revealed how involved his company is in golf . |
| 2 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 3 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 4 | How did his choice of lines overcome the problems of the landforms and of reaching towns and ports ? |
| 5 | How had his wife managed to spot it when she , too , he could have sworn , had kept her eyes off them was a puzzle to the Colonel who tended to the view of Woman as Eternal Enigma . |
| 6 | Now there was a mystery — how had his mother ever got involved with a shark like Michael lee , a miserable jumped-up half-caste , with his too soft handshake and his ice-cold calculating eyes ? |
| 7 | How had his star fallen ? |
| 8 | Someone at the bell — why did his factor and nephew Robert not go out and stop them ? |
| 9 | Why did his hair never seem to change ? |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ said the boy , ‘ but why did his wife say he was up on the roof if he was n't ? ’ |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Riddle went missing on Friday evening ; when did his family report it to the police ? ’ |
| 12 | Where had his certainty gone ? |
| 13 | Why had his mood changed so quickly ? |
| 14 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |