Example sentences of "about [Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't stop thinking about Nicolo , about how he 'd treated her , not just last night but moments before . |
| 2 | Sure , right after he 'd made the captain of the vital supplies ship Antares promise never to talk about Heaven 's Gate — he did n't like thinking about how he 'd done that — he 'd called Magrit over a scrambled beam . |
| 3 | He could n't wait to get back to the station and brag about how he 'd seen him . |
| 4 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 5 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 6 | I do not intend to say much about how he proposes to do this , or about the background in nineteenth-century intellectual history which accounts for his finding the picture attractive . |
| 7 | Basking in this praise , he went into considerable technical detail about how he had achieved the effect . |
| 8 | He tells me about how he had to leave a Walthamstow pub in embarrassment when he was asked to do some karaoke , and then asked for his autograph . |
| 9 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 10 | ‘ He spoke about how he had appreciated the colleagueship of the Methodist pastor in Crackow and I was then able to say that there were indeed Methodists in Italy and the Protestant Church , although small in number is quite significant , particularly in its work among refugees and migrant workers . |
| 11 | He is equally unforthcoming about how he gets written out of Neighbours ; Joe Mangle will be no more in the New Year , but he wo n't reveal how . |
| 12 | I know that nothing has ever been proved against the man , but you 've heard the rumours about how he tries to pressurise people . ’ |
| 13 | Evading questions about how he proposed to resist the will of virtually the whole Arab and international community , he said that Lebanon had not gone through 15 years of civil war , and given thousands of martyrs , for the dishonourable settlement the world was offering . |
| 14 | Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom . |
| 15 | In addition , for those involved on a journey of spiritual exploration and discovery , a series of regressions is of great benefit as it brings to light the pattern so far and allows the patient to make decisions about how he intends to progress . |
| 16 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 17 | And he felt the strange eagle in the cage next to his waiting for a reply to her question about where he had come from . |
| 18 | He failed to recognize Ivone Kirkpatrick , and he spoke only in the most general terms about why he had flown to Scotland . |
| 19 | On his return , he found that people were curious about why he had opted for such a tough mountain . |