Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 2 | Hugh Ritchie , the Departmental Officer one rank above Mr S — , a kind and gentlemanly character with whom I always had rapport , sent for me and asked why I wanted to leave . |
| 3 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 4 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 5 | Last year , Thomas asked for a Mental Health Review Tribunal — and told how he had staged his madman act . |
| 6 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 7 | At the Rabbit Grounds , everything was as I 'd left it — the buck lying strangled in the broken catapult , the sand kicked up and messed where I 'd gone crashing . |
| 8 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 9 | All at once he pictured again the sun striking the glass and understood why it had done so . |
| 10 | He sipped his beer and resumed where he had left off . |
| 11 | She thought how long and lean they were , a true artist 's hands , and remembered how they had felt when he touched her . |
| 12 | She unfolded the tissue , displayed its contents and explained how she had come to find them . |
| 13 | He just reported that you were asking questions , and explained how he 'd dealt with it . |
| 14 | She wished that she could rely on him and wondered where she had acquired such unrealistic expectations . |
| 15 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 16 | Vi looked around the kitchen and wondered why she had scrubbed the floor and cleaned the window . |
| 17 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 18 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 19 | He looked about him as he made his way through , horrified by the squalor , the ugliness of everything he saw , and wondered how he had stood it . |
| 20 | Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long . |