Example sentences of "[noun] and [Wh adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wordsworth is often considered to be cold , egotistical and self-sufficient , but what he writes about here is the warmth of a stranger 's greeting and how it increased his pleasure in the sunset . |
| 2 | They recalled almost in totality everything I had written , the people I had interviewed , the story of the vast corruption in New York 's building trades and how it affected the construction of their monumental World Financial Centre on the Hudson . |
| 3 | In the early stages of a book I always write out two things : one , the plot , that is , the murder and how it happened and perhaps how eventually it will be seen for what it is ; two , the story ( which to make what I mean even clear to myself I generally label " The Storyline " ) , that is , in very rough outline what happens first and what happens next and next and next . |
| 4 | She talked of the spectre of Pre Menstrual Tension and how it blighted her life . |
| 5 | It was quite incredible to see the original fabric and how it changed completely when washed and steam pressed and how easy it was to use as a lovely flat piece of fabric . |
| 6 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 7 | The only thing he could talk about with any certainty was his condition and how it made him feel . |
| 8 | Klein describes her own feelings in doing this work and how it came about ; Informed by her research in Australia and by talking to women who left in vitro fertilisation ( IVF ) programmes . |
| 9 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stockton , South talked about the representative role of a Member of Parliament and how it had changed , which is also important . |
| 11 | After a spell of social self-indulgence , I remembered CGAS and how it had helped me . |
| 12 | Hayling , who was much smoother in his appearance and approach , just seemed to Thomas to be very ignorant of business and how it worked . |
| 13 | Request : Posing as a female post-grad English student , we wrote to ask Parliament 's Mr Fixit whether he could be questioned on his name and how it affected him . |
| 14 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 15 | Obviously , and understandably , working-class men and women took a very instrumental view of education and how it related to their needs and the opportunities available and open to them in society . |
| 16 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 17 | We are also entitled to know if the Government received such advice and why it failed to act . |
| 18 | and all that sort of thing and how it affected people buying furniture because there was a very high luxury tax |
| 19 | He also talked about the moor and how it interested him . |
| 20 | We would teach the electronics necessary to devise the tests and how it worked and things like that , and sure enough by the end of the time some of them had built devices , well all sorts of devices . |
| 21 | ‘ We shall treat this as a suspicious death ; there will be an autopsy and , of course , an investigation to discover the source of the poison and how it got into the brandy . ’ |
| 22 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 23 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 24 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 25 | The ratbird had already shaken many of my convictions regarding life on earth and how it had evolved . |
| 26 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |
| 27 | She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year . |