Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 2 | But there 's still the question of how they knew I would be there at the pay-off . |
| 3 | But also of course there was this propaganda from from the government you know that erm they 'd just got to keep up morale and this was one one way as you will see in a minute of how they did it . |
| 4 | ‘ If you do n't eat , ’ he said grimly , ‘ you get no medication for that head , nor an account of how I found you . ’ |
| 5 | But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them . |
| 6 | Er but I say it , I was just using that as an example of how it brought it home to me how easy it is to get in . |
| 7 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 8 | ‘ I was daft enough to say his plants looked healthy and I got the Ancient Mariner treatment ; a squirt-by-puff account of how he managed it . |
| 9 | It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes . |
| 10 | A TOP Co Antrim motorcycle ace today spoke of how he thought he was going to die when he crashed at more than 150mph during a race at the North West 200 . |
| 11 | When he moved into this intriguing 19th-century house , he had a clear idea of how he wanted it to look and decided to design the decor himself . |
| 12 | So if you go back to the sort of where we gave it five or six headings yeah or three to six headings you should be aiming say well I 'll input a bit of information on that side of it and at the end of that little section I 'll build in some practice in participation and the participation can be any of those ones you 've put in there on that list you gave us early on er practical allocations |
| 13 | No explanation of where he got them from . |
| 14 | And the location of where he dug it up is on every twenty-fifth-century map . |
| 15 | Just giving you an idea of when you had them last year . |
| 16 | You want to know what I actually thought of when you asked me to , quote , talk to you about my cock ? |
| 17 | But anyway , that was what I thought of when you asked me to look straight at my cock and talk about it . |
| 18 | I think only trouble is it 's hard to put the date of when you remmed it back in |
| 19 | Erm I , I thought that was a good idea , putting the date of when I remmed it out . |
| 20 | He said to Rain : ‘ She left them behind when I took her to Nice . |
| 21 | Until now , he has always left me further and further behind when I chased him . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you have any idea what I felt like when I saw you facing up to him with that silly little blade in your hand ? |
| 23 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |
| 24 | ‘ What was it like when you touched him ? ’ |
| 25 | It was my one night off of the week , and a lot of thought went into how I spent it . |
| 26 | ‘ Which still leaves us with why he sent them , ’ he said equally softly . |
| 27 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 28 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 29 | It 's just that everything 's so different from how I imagined it . |
| 30 | From where they sat they were able to study the women in detail . |