Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
| 2 | He was also quick-tempered in a way that sent Frankie scuttling for cover whenever he raised his voice . |
| 3 | I could n't believe it and , at the pictures , persisted in dragging them surreptitiously on and off whenever he took his eyes off the screen and looked at me . |
| 4 | I could n't believe it and , at the pictures , persisted in dragging them surreptitiously on and off whenever he took his eyes off the screen and looked at me . |
| 5 | Whenever he mentioned his novel she told him that only her work was ‘ true art ’ . |
| 6 | He had even threaded a length of wire flex though the tags in his waist-band to stop his trousers from slipping down over his hips whenever he put his hands into his pockets . |
| 7 | Sabatini studied seriously the historical events which form the background to his novels but did not hesitate to glamorize the adventures of his characters and to disregard the accounts of professional historians whenever it suited his stories to do so . |
| 8 | ‘ The boy will tell you how I saved his life , ’ Silver said through the fence . |
| 9 | This was how I interpreted his arguments . |
| 10 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 11 | And that was how she saw his face so clearly . |
| 12 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
| 13 | How you saved his life . ’ |
| 14 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 15 | How one missed his nimbleness , his arch-Gallic vivacity and , above all , his entirely ‘ vocal ’ conception of a score . |
| 16 | He remembers how people said he looked like a wild steer , gazing about on all sides , holding his head too high , and how they said his brain was buckish , and totally devoid of sober reasoning power . |
| 17 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Peter followed , thinking how such behaviour would have infuriated his mother , and how it strengthened his own position . |
| 19 | Wordsworth is often considered to be cold , egotistical and self-sufficient , but what he writes about here is the warmth of a stranger 's greeting and how it increased his pleasure in the sunset . |
| 20 | THE father of one of two men killed in a minibus crash told how he knew his son was involved the moment he heard a radio report . |
| 21 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 22 | It has been noted that CD must here be loosely recalling Dryden 's translation of the poem ( 1697 ) , because in that version Aeneas is made to say , after telling how he saw his father Priam slain , ‘ My hair with horror stood ’ , but there is no corresponding expression in the original Latin . |
| 23 | So he held firm and , after the decisive vote on paragraph 21 of chapter 3 of Lumen Gentium , noted late at night : These rather scrappy notes , jotted down late at night on 22 September 1964 take us to the heart of Paul VI , and illustrate how he saw his Petrine ministry in relation to the ministry of other bishops . |
| 24 | A pleasant , rather gentle middleaged man sitting in the quiet lounge of a London hotel , remembering how he learnt his trade . |
| 25 | What he did , where he went , how he spent his money . |
| 26 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 27 | Inspector of Ancient Monuments , will give an illustrated talk on the 18th-century British soldier at home and how he spent his spare time . |
| 28 | And that was exactly how he viewed his job . |
| 29 | You saw how he imposed his will upon us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The story tells how he left his body behind yet went on to other things , ’ she said . |