Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 2 | He was a man in torment who finally decided that he was what he did , and not what anyone said he was . |
| 3 | He complained to Donaldson , who coolly said that he had not heard about the delegation , but if he was invited he would join it . |
| 4 | Berle also was not impressed with Swinton , who always pleaded that he was bound by instructions from London : ‘ Swinton is ill-prepared … he also tends to be arrogant and inflexible . ' |
| 5 | The man on the stand , who also looked as he could do with the loan of a GII , was proffering a petition to passers-by . |
| 6 | Mansell , who also revealed that he 'd been offered more than twice his wages to go back to Ferrari , added : ‘ Ayrton 's spoiled , always has been — even when he was a kid kart racer . |
| 7 | Even more extreme was Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson , who straightforwardly stated that he wanted nothing to do with blacks : ‘ I 've never let the fact that my father was Nigerian [ his mother was Scottish ] interfere with me . |
| 8 | A man who nearly died when he was dragged along under a car for a quarter of a mile says he hopes to be leaving hospital soon . |
| 9 | It was n't until a week later that I was able to ring John Reeves , vicar of St Luke 's , Cranham , who later said that he was intrigued from the word go by the strange activities we were involved with when he first contacted us . |
| 10 | On 12 June , this impression was reinforced by a call from the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA 's Birmingham field office , who strongly recommended that he plead guilty to the passport violation charge and at all costs ‘ do n't get the DEA involved in your case ’ . |
| 11 | MOST of the money raised for disabled Courtaulds employee Chris Lumb , who sadly died before he could benefit from the appeal launched in his name , is going to help blind toddler Leannda Ward . |
| 12 | PAUL HODKINSON , who recently feared that he would never box again , returns to action in front of his home-town supporters at Kirkby Sports Centre tonight to defend his European featherweight title against Farid Benredjeb of France . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |