Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , he had developed a habit of increasing muscular tension whenever he started reciting . |
| 2 | shouts from Madam Sweaty Pie to enable the older of the canned bus company to leap this obstruction whenever they wish to dismount . |
| 3 | They make it easier for teachers to use the video machine without being tied to its side whenever they want to stop or start it . |
| 4 | Vacuum at least once a week and shampoo whenever it starts to look grubby — probably once or twice a year . |
| 5 | Tax inspectors , who can already ask that bone-poor lawyer how he managed to afford a BMW and a five-bedroom house , may now also check his electricity bills and his credit-card spending ; one Santorini tourist shop turned out to have reported only a tenth of its credit-card takings . |
| 6 | She was not reluctant to talk about herself , and described with glee how she had left Scaraby through the sewers , emerging on the northern verges of Haling Heart . |
| 7 | I asked the Corporal why he had saluted and he explained that it was because the Legion was the senior arm of the French Armed Forces . |
| 8 | In practice however he has to comply with it , because , if he does not , that fact is evidence against him and , if he does , he has a complete defence . |
| 9 | She was n't sure if he would come , but it never occurred to her not to go to the rock where they had met before . |
| 10 | He picked the hambone off the rock where he had put it and held it out to Michael . |
| 11 | The things like a case study where you have to gather lots of information and analyze it , I mean that 's just what the reflectors like , cos they want to feel that there 's you know they th working is not just it 's actually working on some fact . |
| 12 | Huy said nothing , resisting the urge to ask Merymose why he had told Kenamun of his meeting with Surere , and wondering if the Medjay would give an explanation . |
| 13 | 658 Wilfrid , a young Northumbrian recently returned from the continent where he had visited Rome and received the Petrine tonsure in Gaul ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 3 , 7 ) . |
| 14 | But they do n't actually scoop it out off from the blast furnace , they drill a hole in the side where they 've plugged it with a lump of clay . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you here for business or pleasure ? ’ scowled Nubenehem from the couch where she appeared to live . |
| 16 | I leave the car where I have parked it and walk to my last appointment . |
| 17 | The protesters were eventually removed from the club where they continued to demonstrate outside , but no arrests were made . |
| 18 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
| 19 | Middlesbrough had tested Norman 's reflexes just before half-time when he managed to get his knees in the way of a hard , low shot from Jon Gittens , which might have levelled the scores . |
| 20 | She ran upstairs to the bedroom where she had left her coat . |
| 21 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 22 | Looking through the window over the sink , Ruth could see the little paved yard leading to the workroom where she had struggled to learn the craft of fine hand-sewing , so long ago . |
| 23 | I could visualise the map , and the position of the village in relation to the coast where I had come ashore . |
| 24 | Rain 's memory guided her to the cafe where she had sat with Cobalt . |
| 25 | When Rosa had completed her gentle grooming , they resumed their circling of the square , hand in hand ; and Tommaso came out of the cafe where he had bought Caterina and Franco ice cream , and lit a cigarette and puffed smoke into the evening sunlight . |
| 26 | He quickly located his man in the deep doorway where he had positioned himself , by the intermittent glow of his cigarette . |
| 27 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 28 | After an hour the sun clouded over , so they picked up their things and started back towards the fence where they had left their bicycles . |
| 29 | The ceremony began , and soon I heard the priest come to the point in the wedding where he had to ask , ‘ Is there any reason why these two people should not be married ? ’ |
| 30 | IN WITNESS whereof I have set my hand to this deed this in the presence of : |