Example sentences of "[was/were] [Wh adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 2 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 4 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 5 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 6 | And an hour or two later I shall leave them feeling considerably older and wiser than they were when I started . |
| 7 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 8 | It was how I 'd always imagined showbiz would be — far removed from the stark reality of Working Men 's Clubs . |
| 9 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 10 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 11 | No doubt I was jealous , and I was certainly intolerant , but it is no good denying that was how I felt . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
| 13 | Shocked was how I felt . |
| 14 | That was how I got named Yellow Wolf . |
| 15 | That was how I got started . |
| 16 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 17 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 18 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 19 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 20 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
| 21 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 22 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 23 | That was how I saw it : Henry and Louisa Agnew , long dead but mysteriously alive under this mountain of paper , were one team ; Edward and I the other . |
| 24 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 25 | ‘ It was how I knew you were coming . |
| 26 | This was how I met Mrs Allen . |
| 27 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 28 | That was how I perceived it , in wordless ways in my head , in my gut . |
| 29 | Ernest , Alfred , Louis , Max : the band of students , that was how I thought of them . |
| 30 | That day and later at Ascot , rocketing clear in all his glory was how I want to remember the great Nijinsky . |