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

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1 His bending and vibrato are very distinctive and to my mind this side of his playing comes from the Hendrix/B.B.King school , whereby he often bends minor thirds slightly sharp and fifths slightly flat — both of which help to lend a bluesy tinge to his style .
2 George 's forte was tricky and clever wing play , whereby he consistently gained sufficient , room to put across a steady stream of accurate and testing crosses , from which other forwards regularly benefited .
3 Later , in his book Aromatherapie , he describes how he successfully treated several long-term psychiatric patients with essential oils .
4 John Paul II described how he personally scrutinised successive drafts — 10 in all — which were presented for his consideration .
5 He suffered a similar injury against Leicester City earlier in the season when he also scored two goals .
6 Still , David was also an honest and capable footballer and , even if his Palace career was not to reach his previous level , he played some useful games for us and was probably at his best in the autumn of 1983 , when he also scored some valuable goals , including one late winner against his home town club , Cardiff City .
7 He was 9-13 down in the third game this time , when he somehow slipped free .
8 The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both .
9 Hrawi underlined his determination to press ahead with the security plan on Oct. 24 when he formally ordered all militias to leave Beirut and to hand over positions to the Lebanese Army .
10 The wheel came full circle last year when he suddenly became ill with a bewildering illness eventually diagnosed as amyloid of the kidneys .
11 However he never considered fitting air brakes to the tractor .
12 He arrived in Britain , where he soon found supporting roles in the cinema , notably in Victoria the Great ( 1937 ) , Herbert Wilcox 's vehicle for his future wife , Anna Neagle ; then as a schoolmaster in Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) ; and finally in Carol Reed 's Night Train to Munich ( 1940 ) , in which he played a treacherous Gestapo agent with a telling degree of coldness .
13 He enlisted in the Life Guards in 1807 , and won renown for his exploits at the battle of Waterloo where he reputedly killed ten French soldiers before succumbing to his own many wounds .
14 He accepted an offer in 1912 from the Glasgow and South Western Railway to become their locomotive superintendent in Kilmarnock , where he immediately made sweeping changes to their previous design practices which were neither popular nor generally successful .
15 Jack would be very much surprised if his friend would n't be living in one of those houses in Ploughman 's Lane like the one where he sometimes did electrical jobs with real old French furniture and real oil paintings and the kind of china you looked at but did n't eat off .
16 Often in films someone goes to a house where he once spent happier times and , slowly , the screen if filled with laughing .
17 But experts who monitored Vincent are baffled why he never needs much kip .
18 He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying .
19 Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way .
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