Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mm , so then I saw her last Tuesday or whenever she told me |
| 2 | Such a quantity of natural ability can sometimes cause inner confusion and players like him can turn a match on its head sometimes without knowing how it happened or how they did it . |
| 3 | Both Dames Elizabeth and Martha were deaf , so whatever you said or how you said it would not cause any alarm . |
| 4 | When my father died there were a lot of quarrels between my mother and I. I 'd always lived with my father , so I did n't know her , or how she wanted me to be . |
| 5 | Inspector Redpath and the ordinary police made hundreds of inquiries on land , but could learn nothing to indicate who the dead man was , or how or where he met his death . |
| 6 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |
| 7 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 8 | I just do n't understand where father got them or why he kept them hidden like this . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you know where he got them or why he kept them from his family ? ’ |
| 10 | I do nt know how or why you got your pathetic little paws on it … but hey … no big deal … |
| 11 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 12 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 13 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
| 14 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 15 | We had a nice bottle of wine , and whenever he poured it he put his hand over the price-tag which he 'd forgotten to remove . |
| 16 | And whenever she bought it always had to be the best . |
| 17 | Agents there have interviewed some of the United States ’ most notorious killers such as Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan to learn details of why and how they committed their crimes . |
| 18 | This was March — it was cold , windy , and altogether an unpleasant time of the year to have to sit in a car for long periods observing people 's activities , and how they lived their lives . |
| 19 | Find out why men and women became pirates , where they operated and how they met their end . |
| 20 | About my tendency to repeat things … kids arriving late in class and how they affected it . |
| 21 | Quindly Quot used to tell the story of the Spiggies , their persecution by the Jingoes and how they got their revenge . |
| 22 | He remembers how people said he looked like a wild steer , gazing about on all sides , holding his head too high , and how they said his brain was buckish , and totally devoid of sober reasoning power . |
| 23 | There were different nuances in terms of what people thought of as the barriers and how they thought they could be overcome . |
| 24 | Only the French seemed able to meet challenges of that kind , and how they did it was a mystery to most outside experts . |
| 25 | It may also prove helpful to talk to other firms which have relocated to find out how they went about planning and executing the relocation , the problems they faced and how they overcame them . |
| 26 | The speeches were really like a competition to see , who could manipulate and how they used their power . |
| 27 | Finally , we discussed with individual pupils using the library and with groups of children extracted from lessons their perspectives on the library and how they used it . |
| 28 | ( Otto once told me some unbelievably shocking — to me — tales about Jean-Claude and American soldiers , and how they paid him in cigarettes and chewing-gum . |
| 29 | and how we thought she loved |
| 30 | I explained quickly about Sal 's hospitalization and how we wanted someone to keep an eye , or an ear , open for Frank . |