Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His commuter companions were impressed by this sudden fame , and Dad told me delightedly how they pointed him out to each other on Platform Two . |
| 2 | Piggy was shown from three different angles in the book , firstly from how the writer described him , then there was how the other boys saw him and lastly how he saw himself . |
| 3 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 4 | It was only when I did something particularly outrageous that the priggish side of him came out . ’ |
| 5 | It was only when he felt her going limp against him that he stopped and lifted his head . |
| 6 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 7 | It was only when he drew her back by her arms that she opened her eyes wide and stared at him . |
| 8 | It was only when she had it on that she realised the danger of this . |
| 9 | It was only when she ceased her household duties , refused to cook and clean , refused herself to eat , and went and sat day after day in the park , never changing her clothes , and wandering about with plastic bags full of old newspapers , that anyone took notice . |
| 10 | It was only when she found herself being abruptly swept off his lap , and on to the leather seat beside him , that she managed to start pulling herself together . |
| 11 | It was only when she exhibited her portraits in a boardroom that the medical staff actually saw what she was doing and she finally felt accepted . |
| 12 | So why they did it Well why they did it is clear er to make slightly bigger hall , but why they took the risk they did is not so clear . |
| 13 | I want to know why they did it and especially why they did what they did with the head … |
| 14 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 15 | It was barely eight o'clock when she decided she might as well go to bed , but , when she headed towards the kitchen to make a suppertime hot drink , he followed her . |
| 16 | Put it down where I left it , put it down , let go Anthony |
| 17 | We were bundles , lifted up and put down wherever it suited our captors . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor . |
| 19 | Exactly how he saw it . |
| 20 | And that was exactly how he viewed his job . |
| 21 | As vicars say , I would like to share with you exactly how he put it because it is a very important constitutional question . ’ |
| 22 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 23 | ‘ — would you mind confirming exactly how you distinguished yourself by finding us ? |
| 24 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 25 | ‘ Mmm … just how I imagined your home would look . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , but if you refuse I 'll reveal to the Press just how he blackmailed you into being his mistress . |
| 27 | As he rose to take his leave the Magistrate thought again of the stupidity of the zemindars who had refused to reinforce the embankments ; near him , in the lumber of possessions , was an oil painting of a stag at bay : that was just how he felt himself . |
| 28 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 29 | But that was not how they saw themselves : by asserting the importance of lineage and kinship , and contrasting it with the ideology of their state , they thought to claim attachment to eternal values of universal worth . |
| 30 | ‘ That was not how we heard it at Aber . |