Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 2 | See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter . |
| 3 | After the atmosphere that sparked between them whenever they spent a few hours together … ! |
| 4 | But the view of both sides in this debate hinged upon how they viewed the so-called law of primitive socialist accumulation . |
| 5 | The essence of what the popes required of the emperors and how they saw the imperial office is enshrined in the imperial oaths taken at the time of coronation and in the prayer at the conferment of the sword . |
| 6 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 7 | and how they recognised a common truth |
| 8 | A little is known about the way the duns and the chapels with their carved slabs were used in medieval times but hardly anything about how they regarded the earlier standing stones . |
| 9 | A little is known about the way the duns and the chapels with their carved slabs were used in medieval times but hardly anything about how they regarded the earlier standing stones . |
| 10 | But the real dynamite in Packard 's book was his Status Table of jobs , compiled in a University of Chicago study , in which people were asked how they rated the social standing of one profession compared with another . |
| 11 | However , another way of explaining this effect is to ask the subjects how they performed the experimental task . |
| 12 | How they glimpsed the Dark Lords who hold sway there , how they saw that the skies were dull and clotted with evil magic and black bewitchments . |
| 13 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 14 | The last time Manchester United played in Belfast was in 1990 when they played an Irish League Select at Windsor as part of the local league 's centenary celebrations . |
| 15 | And they revelled in the moment when they mounted the famous ramp at Monte Carlo for photographs . |
| 16 | A NETWORK hack and photographer happened to be passing by when they spotted a well-known accountant checking the INROADS mat . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S dressage riders made history today when they took a European Championship team silver medal in Lipica , Slovenia . |
| 18 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 19 | He appeals from the order of the North Avon Magistrates ' Family Proceedings Court on 23 December 1991 when they made a secure accommodation order in respect of him for three months . |
| 20 | The two men were arrested at a Bosnian checkpoint last November when they made a wrong turn while driving through the Serb-held western outskirts of Sarajevo . |
| 21 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 22 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 23 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 24 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 25 | , 's export administrator , helped lead the Sudbury cricket team to victory earlier this year when they won the premier cricket competition in Suffolk and Essex . |
| 26 | Rangers go to Motherwell knowing that if they avoid defeat they will equal their best unbeaten sequence of matches — 38 — set back in 1975/76 when they won the domestic treble . |
| 27 | Federal officials made the world 's largest seizure of cocaine in Los Angeles in September when they raided a suburban house and found 20 tonnes ( 44,080 lb ) of cocaine . |
| 28 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 29 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 30 | It looks as though USL was valued at around $355m , up $30m from when they did the private placement 18 months ago . |