Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 2 | You know , depends on how you retail it first but |
| 3 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 4 | Note the loss of the thumb on the hand of this kind of monkey and how it uses its first or index finger to grip items of food . |
| 5 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 6 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 7 | That 's when I got my first big shock of the night for the caller was none other than Danny himself ! |
| 8 | As he sat there , that 's when I got my first real look at John Russell . |
| 9 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 10 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 11 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 12 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 13 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 14 | I think she really took a fancy to you — talked about you all the time when I saw her last summer . |
| 15 | Er just before the war when I saw her last . |
| 16 | The only other event at Huntingdon that I recall with any clarity was when I had my first ever flight in an aircraft — and for a time I was quite determined that it was going to be my last . |
| 17 | I was 14 when I had my first date . |
| 18 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm staying , ’ he told me when I visited him last July . |
| 20 | Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse . |
| 21 | My homes are a far cry from the attic flat in Bloomsbury where I had my first set in 1958 . |
| 22 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 23 | Those living in the more remote area like Albany , where I did my first workshop , are truly isolated . |
| 24 | ‘ From your conversation with Nina , can I assume that Jennifer told you why I visited her last night ? ’ |
| 25 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 26 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 27 | Liz will provide the voice-over for baby Little Maggie when she says her first word — ‘ Daddy ! ’ |
| 28 | Her last visit to the hospital was in 1950 when she had her first baby there . |
| 29 | Many local people are already asking when she begins her next fundraising venture . |
| 30 | Just giving you an idea of when you had them last year . |