Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet whenever he has steered in the defence trials , his helmsmanship has proved deficient . |
| 2 | In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ . |
| 3 | At the sight of his mutilated photo-pass , the Croatians summoned , after some comment between themselves , a senior officer , who listened with growing impatience to Swan 's explanation as to the means whereby he had come by it . |
| 4 | I remembered my father 's story of how he 'd played in a game ‘ against the pick , the pick , of Catterick Camp ’ and won it singlehanded by tackling again and again a big winger from the Scots Guards . |
| 5 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 7 | A lady in Pierremont shared our misgivings ‘ in its present form the scheme is in a non-starter in Darlington ’ and a chap round Carmel Road way told how he 'd tried in vain to interest either police or neighbours in a scheme . |
| 8 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |
| 9 | He just reported that you were asking questions , and explained how he 'd dealt with it . |
| 10 | Cos he he When he liked he could speak very well but how he 'd taken to the road I do n't know , but he was well known er er as the blind fiddler . |
| 11 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 12 | Miss Trimm had talked about her son as an infant , how he had blessed the fishermen on Dynmouth Pier , how he had emerged from her womb without pain . |
| 13 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 14 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 15 | He would groan when he realised , afterwards , how he had raged at Maria Filippa . |
| 16 | He was received by old Mrs Ferrar and Nicholas , to whom he spoke frankly of how he had heard of ‘ their watching and praying at night , of their altar richly decked with plate , tapestry and tapers , of their adoration and genuflections on entering therein , which might savour of superstition and popery ’ . |
| 17 | The premier 's wife sat Daniel Churchill on her lap to hear how he had battled against serious heart problems . |
| 18 | The premier 's wife then sat Daniel Churchill on her lap to hear how he had battled against serious heart problems . |
| 19 | Tom Reynolds remembered how he had quarrelled with his father , a quarrel much like the one he was leading up to with Esther Ward . |
| 20 | Still detached from the actual sensations , she described how he had gone under the water and then come to the surface again several times before finally drowning . |
| 21 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 22 | Rapidly he described how he had gone to the paper with two missions that Friday afternoon : to deliver his column to Tavett and to tackle MacQuillan about the increasing anger among the print unions . |
| 23 | Jerry Bailey typically articulate was being asked about his success on Ah Kong He described how he had moved alongside a European ridden horse . |
| 24 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 25 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 26 | ( Quite how he had come by this weapon , since it was cast into the lake at the conclusion of that great king 's reign , is not recorded ! ) |
| 27 | And was this how he had got under Elise 's skin ? |
| 28 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 29 | Yet she would n't let him see just how he had got to her . |
| 30 | Peter told her how he had hovered on the margin of death for nearly six months . |