Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How they ever found time to get there during Peter Hickton 's intensive rehearsals , he could not imagine . |
| 2 | We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes . |
| 3 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 4 | However she never lost control , giving polite but non-committal answers to endless questions about her feelings for the Prince . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's the Humming Bird , ’ said Ianthe , naming the cafe where she sometimes had lunch . |
| 6 | In a study of 400 of the biggest bank mergers in the 1980s , FMCG Capital Strategies , a New York consultancy , found that four out of five deals failed miserably — to the point where they soon destroyed value for the acquiring bank . |
| 7 | These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side . |
| 8 | His first parliamentary contest was in 1966 when he unsuccessfully fought South Buckinghamshire . |
| 9 | But Mr Wynn said : ‘ He was driving fast , at least 50 miles per hour , when he completely lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle . |
| 10 | He worked in this area until his retiral in 1975 , but was immediately re-employed as time-keeper ( part time ) , a position he held until April 1990 when he officially stopped work . |
| 11 | Although Jacques retained his title of ‘ flutte du Roi ’ until his death ( it appears on the first page of his inventory , 1763 ) , this provides no clear indication of when he actually stopped performing , since musicians retained titles as property . |
| 12 | This board dropped ‘ Unemployment ’ from its title in 1940 when it also took responsibility for supplementary pensions from local authorities ( Wilson 1948:97 — 8 ) . |
| 13 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 14 | His first surviving large-scale compositions , including at least five keyboard concertos , date from his years in Berlin , where he also gained renown as a harpsichordist . |
| 15 | Tony Dobson was found dead in the yard at Roundhill Farm , Roundhill Road , near Hurworth , where he often used steam equipment to clean the Volvo articulated lorry . |
| 16 | Introduced in 1904 , this mark denotes purity and quality , which is why it later became part of Lurpak 's name . |
| 17 | But he left no unequivocal evidence of why he personally felt Emancipation necessary . |