Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How they ever made any money at the Horizon factory I shall never know . |
| 2 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 3 | The acid test was when I told him why I never had any money to spend , but he was very understanding . |
| 4 | Can you tell me where you actually got that information from ? |
| 5 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
| 6 | He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying . |
| 7 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |