Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 2 | Think back to your own conversion and how you began to search for God , however vaguely . |
| 3 | When we consulted our customers on how they wanted to pay for water , there was no clear preference . |
| 4 | In 1936 , at a time when she had played for Yorkshire on 62 occasions , Mary married John Toogood , a Yorkshire businessman . |
| 5 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 6 | It was not until the following summer that Cadwallon surprised Osric 's forces and slew the Deiran leader , thereafter ravaging widely across Anglian territory and slaying Eanfrith when he came to sue for peace ( HE 111 , 1 ) . |
| 7 | Laura almost groaned out loud as she recalled Ross 's reassuring words when he 'd left for London two days ago . |
| 8 | He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty ? — and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . |
| 9 | One has the sense that he himself was beached there and that one of his comforts lay in writing out his fears in order to bring his readers to the same sands where he lay struggling for air . |