Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting broke up quickly as the other men in the room rose from wherever they had found to sit , some on chairs but most cross-legged on the floor , picked up weapons and equipment , and began to file out . |
| 2 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 3 | Of course , you vary the cast at first , until you discover the hotspot , but if you have not noted each cast fairly precisely you will not know where the fish came from when you do catch one . |
| 4 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 5 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 6 | As Seb walked to where he had tied Romni his name was called and he turned to find Anna walking towards him . |
| 7 | Nicolo looked at her in silence , and then he walked to where he 'd left his glass of sherry and picked it up . |
| 8 | Everyone remarked on how she 'd taken after my side of the family but I could see George in her , I was certain of it . |
| 9 | Speechless , and more than a little shaken , Paige returned to where she had left her things . |
| 10 | After every question on oil tankers , he talked about how they started to put passenger ferries safer . |
| 11 | When Elizabeth returned to England she talked of how she planned to go to South Africa to see if her future was there with Mr Cronje . |
| 12 | If a winding lane led to where she wanted to go , she 'd cross two furlongs of field to cut the corner . |
| 13 | I thought about how I 'd walked around all those weeks and what I 'd felt about him and the crazy things I had found myself believing . |
| 14 | I thought of how I 'd stood |
| 15 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 16 | I looked to where I had slept . |
| 17 | ‘ He spoke about how he had appreciated the colleagueship of the Methodist pastor in Crackow and I was then able to say that there were indeed Methodists in Italy and the Protestant Church , although small in number is quite significant , particularly in its work among refugees and migrant workers . |
| 18 | He spoke of how he had established the sex of the larger skeleton . |
| 19 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 20 | ‘ Over here , ’ shouted one of the Sturmabteilungen and the others , six to start with , but soon joined by more from inside the building , ran to where he had found the tripped alarm . |
| 21 | Wednesday rushed off for help and Endill ran to where he remembered planting his seeds . |