Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This guy I used to know , Babs Eadon , he told me of how he went to get a holiday job when he was doing a Masters degree . |
| 3 | So she began with praise : — the more I think on it Ellen the more beholden I am to you for how you have cared for Oreste and the more fortunate . |
| 4 | So did this woman ask you about why you 've had so many Fridays off ? |
| 5 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 6 | The timetable chart ( top ) shows how the bus was supposed to run and the one below how it did run . |
| 7 | Sam came with me to where I 'd parked Tremayne 's car on stone-strewn grass . |
| 8 | That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann . |
| 9 | We clean their homes , fetch their shopping , ferry them to where they wish to go ; and we do all this without thinking that our care might be undermining their independence , even their morale . |
| 10 | It reminded him of when he had guarded a colonial nursery , after an unexpected attack by Hunters had resulted in the abduction of two small infants . |
| 11 | I reminded him of how we 'd got rid of Abed without any unpleasant repercussions , but he could n't accept it . |
| 12 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 13 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 14 | It reminded her of why she had started refusing most invitations to date a long time ago . |
| 15 | He switched the subject just as he had snapped his fingers to remind her of how she had switched off after Seville . |
| 16 | Leith hid her surprise to tell him sharply , and walked away from him to where she had parked her car . |
| 17 | She allows her mind to wander , following the associations that the caterpillar calls up , in a kind of trance , knowing they will lead her to where she needs to go . |
| 18 | How much is it worth when it 's done no miles , well they give you that one anyway . |
| 19 | I mean is it like how they 've done various singles in the past , Cliff Richard and ‘ Summer Holiday ’ , you know putting a little voice on top , a little snippet . |
| 20 | Today we all have access to the speed , warmth and comfort of cars , buses , trains and planes , if that is we have the money , if there is a service running when we want it to where we want to go and if there is n't already so much traffic ahead of us choking the roads , polluting the atmosphere that we wished we stayed at home . |
| 21 | well it , now the postman takes it to where it 's got to be sorted and they will post it to whoever it has to go to . |
| 22 | More often , they are indulgently amused by the cute tangles children get themselves into when they try to explain something , or to define abstract notions or emotionally laden terms . |
| 23 | Otto turned out to have measureless charm and the most courteous manner , and in slow , correct English told us of how he had perfected his tactics in Baltic exercises before the war , how he had put them into practice in the Atlantic , and how , on the night after his capture , he had played bridge in the day-cabin of Captain Macintyre with one of the ship 's lieutenants and the captains of two merchant ships he had sunk , and then slept ( for Captain Macintyre was in his sea-cabin ) in Captain Macintyre 's bunk . |