Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 2 | His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins . |
| 3 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 4 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 5 | Off the field , he conducted himself with the same composure and dignity as he did whenever he pulled on the white shirt of England or the claret and blue of West Ham . |
| 6 | Whenever he spoke to the woman he regretted that he had not stamped his authority and demanded that Gwen should be released from Leconfield and transferred with him , but they had said in Century 's personnel that he must have a secretary who knew the ropes of the Service , and he had acquiesced . |
| 7 | This appeal is by the local authority , with the leave of the judge , from an order made by Sir Gervase Sheldon , sitting as an additional judge of the High Court , on 20 December 1991 , whereby he granted to the foster mother , who had been the foster mother of four children in the care of the local authority , leave to apply for a residence order in respect of those children . |
| 8 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 9 | So that 's how he knew about the grain . |
| 10 | She waited as he pointed up the quay , bursting to ask how he knew about the Quakers , let alone where they met . |
| 11 | We were asking Fish Sparks as we call him how he knew about the fish that swims up your pee and he said he 'd seen some fat explorer fellow on the box going on about it , which sounded likely enough . |
| 12 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 13 | She also has a story of how he disappeared during the dress rehearsal of a performance by Miss Webb 's pupils , to be found later ‘ in the wings , sitting perched on a pedestal , in a dream world of his own ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | With particular pride he notes how in the crisis of 1124 , when the king of England and the emperor were allied against him , and Henry V planned an attack on Rheims , Louis put himself dramatically under the protection of St Denis , ‘ the special patron and singular protector after God of the kingdom ’ ; how he came to the saint and begged him to defend his kingdom , preserve his person and resist his enemies , as the saint was accustomed to do . |
| 16 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 17 | He saw the calculation at the back of Weis 's eyes that greeted his comment — saw how he looked for a trap in every word of his — and smiled inwardly . |
| 18 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 19 | ‘ If it 's not his jokes , he is constantly relating how he fought as a moss trooper on the northern march . ’ |
| 20 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 21 | Seb did not want a light to show Carrie how he got down the stairs . |
| 22 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 23 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 24 | A FIREMAN told yesterday how he plunged into the blazing wreckage of a motorway pileup to save a trapped lorry driver . |
| 25 | ‘ You none of you know how he died in the workhouse and was buried in a pauper 's grave ? ’ |
| 26 | You heard for yourself how he sounded on the phone ; he said he 'll be down . |
| 27 | My father would explain how he dreamed about the ill and how , for instance , in the case of Bobby Bowen 's hand , paralysed after a pit accident , he 'd worked on the fingers for days without success until , in a dream , the answer had come . |
| 28 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 29 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 30 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |