Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat-race compared to her contemporaries . |
| 2 | That 's how they were placed in the position you see . |
| 3 | Our research looked at mental health services in three areas and how they were affected by the introduction of care programming . |
| 4 | I asked exactly how they were related to the Great Moguls . |
| 5 | In addition , two colleagues in naval intelligence had recently been taken on by ICI to be trained as work study officers , and spoke enthusiastically to me of how they were treated by the company . |
| 6 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 7 | The incredible ruined cities , many more of which still remain to be discovered in the jungle areas , are one fascination , if only to speculate as to how they were built in a civilisation which had no beast of burden bigger than a llama , no wheels , and no cutting edge except stone . |
| 8 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 9 | She pinpoints specific institutions , like the Institute for Research in Reproductive Biology , and how they were normalised after the war , showing that the work of researchers themselves , like Carl Clauberg , was continued and became part of present-day reproductive science . |
| 10 | You had to chase him off from where you were cordoning off the slip . |
| 11 | ‘ And there I was wondering why you were smelling like a — like a … ’ |
| 12 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 13 | And l and especially yesterday yeah , you know when we were standing in the foyer after school yeah ? |
| 14 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 15 | One day when we were walking in the Grange garden , I noticed her crying . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , she did , but it was when we were going to the station to see him off . |
| 17 | but it 's lovely you know when we were coming past the playing fields , it 's erm I did n't |
| 18 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 19 | We had a somewhat similar experience at a previous church I was at where we were looking for a minister and the , the man er who was , who came to us was again very nervous and excitable and so on . |
| 20 | Sunday , 14th : Flew with British Council English Studies Officers and to Jaipur , where we were met with a posy of flowers at the airport by my host and ex-student , , organizer of the Workshop on Communicative Grammar . |
| 21 | Having arranged a guard on the aircraft we all went back to Shaibah , where we were entertained by the one lady passenger in the Officers ' Mess . |
| 22 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 23 | But in a situation where we were left with the second E I P and we had districts preparing district wide plans and as Mr in his submission has said , he intends to remove the present article fourteen , direction , we are in real chaos . |
| 24 | That is why we were reckoning on a 10 year transition . |
| 25 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 26 | I can not understand why we were issued with a single piece of plastic in the first place , unless it was to save you money , since there was certainly no reduction for us . |
| 27 | The only difference this time is that arrangements have been made for the BBC to collect the licence fee , but the rules are precisely the same as they were when they were collected by the Government . |
| 28 | These kings chose Angkor at the beginning of the ninth century for their residence and remained there until 1431 , when they were defeated by the Thais . |
| 29 | Thus Caesarius of Arles was accused by one of his own clergy of committing treason with the Burgundians at a time when they were ruled by the arian Gundobad . |
| 30 | The rest of the class suffered its demise in the winter of 1934 when they were replaced by the streamlined double-deckers as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the tramway. 59 was spared and sent for storage to Fleetwood depot , following a valedictory tribute in the Evening Gazette : ‘ They were clumsy , awkward and dangerous , but they were Blackpool 's own trams , and there was nothing like them anywhere else . |