Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he was [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , Palin made a point in the commentary about how he was n't pretending that he was on his own or that there were not gruff acolytes kneeling at his feet as he spoke . |
| 2 | In the summer , when he was not studying or working to earn money , young Cottle took a bus deep into the Vale of Glamorgan . |
| 3 | I guess the fans love him because 1 ) he 's a bloody good player — he proved that at Arse ; 2 ) they think he 's had a bit of a raw deal especially last year when he was n't played and the rest of the team wer n't exactly setting the Premiership on fire ! ! |
| 4 | In June 1985 , when he was already established as one of Scottish football 's most persistent goalscorers , McAvennie left St Mirren for £340,000 and joined West Ham . |
| 5 | Killigrew hastened to Bideford , where he was soon to meet and marry Alice , daughter of Sir Greville Hawken . |
| 6 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |