Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her arms out from her sides and back , arching her spine and pondering vaguely as she did so why it had been thought necessary or relevant to give them such old bodies , perhaps to keep the idea of the passing of time , simple mortality , to the forefront of their minds . |
| 2 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
| 3 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 4 | She knew now why she had been born , born for his love only . |
| 5 | Chris Morrison , prosecuting , said Raper went to the pub to find out why he had been barred . |
| 6 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 7 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |