Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [be] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike media reporting of the actual events , ‘ I ca n't even see how it 's in the public interest . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just telling you how it is for a struggling garden designer , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | It is hard to believe that the success of a Medau Teacher Training Course ( and therefore our regional development ) should have to depend on the proceeds of a raffle , but that 's just how it was in the late '60s in MANCHESTER . |
| 4 | ‘ If you have no objection , I 'd like to know where everyone was at the critical time . |
| 5 | Accordingly , one winter 's day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place in America , I decided to see if I could find him . |
| 6 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 7 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 8 | ‘ And that was why she was on the upper deck that night ? ’ asked Owen . |
| 9 | As before , when she was on the Northern Line , she thought there must be some rule , some operating law , that would stop more than a limited , controlled number getting in . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's get back to when she was on the top deck . |
| 11 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 12 | Such as Agnes and Flora , two " unknowns " who sent her a postcard because they had seen her on " telly " and were sorry to hear she was poorly ; eighty-year-old Phoebe who kept them awake one night when she was in a distressed state ; the flower lover who treated the ward as a potting shed taking clippings from the various plants ; the " blether " of women she was invited to join round one of the beds when she was fit enough to take a short walk . |
| 13 | really hate is when you 're on a crowded train and you 're all getting on the train and someone else who 's getting off lights up a cigarette and |
| 14 | Of course , I despised myself for despising them for showing such genuine and unselfish emotions , but that 's just one of the things you have to get used to when you 're in a serious self-destruction spiral . |
| 15 | It 's only when you are on the top floor and you look down on life on the bottom floor that everything down there looks smaller than normal . ’ |
| 16 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 17 | Er , so the cycle is is very important , yes , to recognise where you 're in the positive cycle , but be aware of other peoples responses . |
| 18 | Just aim to stay where you are until the tough period is over and you can recommence your weight loss regime . |
| 19 | They had met eight months before in Houston where she was on a promotional tour for her Budgie books . |
| 20 | The vital thing to do is to make sure that the reader understands why you are including a particular piece of information . |
| 21 | Which is why you are in a secret office here and not at police headquarters . |
| 22 | ‘ So this is why you were in a brown study for most of the journey into Hastings , ’ she said almost accusingly . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 24 | Sometimes when they were in a needy mood , which was most of the time , David would be out in the lobby at Advision Studios where we were recording , and they would be cuddling and cooing and wooing — it was disgusting . |
| 25 | Not when they were in a public place and surrounded by other people . |
| 26 | Leave the rooted cuttings where they are until the following autumn and , if well-rooted , transplant to their permanent positions , otherwise leave until the following mid spring . |
| 27 | If the chronology of the Bible is correct how had the American Indians managed to get to where they are in the short interval since Noah 's Flood ? |
| 28 | The plots were essentially the same ; like any successful entrepreneur , Alger knew when he was onto a good thing . |
| 29 | They always reminded me of an angry boar 's , small , red-rimmed and vicious — and that 's when he was in a good mood ! |
| 30 | He had his revenge in March 1322 , when he was among the royalist army which defeated Lancaster at Boroughbridge . |