Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some wry amusement at the choice of weapon could also be extracted from the folio Bible with which , according to Anthony Trollope in his Autobiography , his father used to fell him whenever he had been idle . |
| 2 | A member of the Cheshire Regiment yesterday told how he escaped being blown up by a mine , only to be fired at by Croatian forces . |
| 3 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 4 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 5 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 6 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 7 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 8 | Anyway he immediately started saying how he 'd been a Leeds fan since the age of five and how his big ambition was to play for them ! |
| 9 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 10 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 11 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 12 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |
| 13 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I wanted to be the one who does the work , ’ Roland began innocently , and then saw how he had been insulted . |
| 15 | But the 29-year-old centre-half explained how he had been the victim of his own eagerness to be involved in the Kop cause , despite a virus problem . |
| 16 | Fury returned as he thought how he had been cheated of glory by a treacherous piece of turf , when it had not even been his turn to lead ! |
| 17 | After hearing the boy 's story of how he had been ‘ neglected and abused ’ by his mother Rachel , judge Thomas Kirk told him he could be adopted by his foster parents George and Lizabeth Russ . |
| 18 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 19 | Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too . |
| 20 | Sometimes in the middle of a celebration , Christmas or Easter , she would think of him and the knowledge of how he had been murdered would cast a shadow over everything . |
| 21 | Patrick Jenkin , as Conservative Social Services Secretary , more recently described how he had been reliably informed that ‘ the increasing turbulence of modern life , with rising crime , industrial disruption , violence and terrorism , was rooted in the separation of children from their parents during the war ’ . |
| 22 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 23 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 24 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 25 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 26 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 27 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 28 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 29 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 30 | He described how he had been contracted by the CIA to fly to Aguacate , a Contra base in Honduras with 28,000 pounds of military equipment . |