Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 2 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 3 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 4 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 5 | Although she understood why he wanted her to bend the truth , it still went against the grain . |
| 6 | It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself . |
| 7 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 8 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 9 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 10 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
| 11 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |
| 12 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 13 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 14 | She was a longstanding institution in the place and her shortcomings tended to be overlooked because she looked after an elderly invalid mother at home and everyone wondered how she managed her dual responsibilities . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 17 | ‘ You look well , Lili , ’ he remarked , also without warmth , and I wondered why they had ever been friends since they did n't like each other . |
| 18 | And I wondered how he deduced you know , how he got this . |
| 19 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 20 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 21 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 22 | ‘ If I knew how I meant I should n't be asking you to design it , because that 's what design is , knowing how you mean . |
| 23 | on the grounds that until I knew where I 'd got |
| 24 | He looked like an old man suddenly and she realised how he had aged since she had seen him last . |
| 25 | But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place . |
| 26 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 27 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 28 | And she wondered why she felt such a sense of despair . |
| 29 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 30 | He gave her a strange look , and she wondered why he had called her Sarella Vila if he 'd already forgotten about Peter . |