Example sentences of "be [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be why he refused to speak to Miss Havisham directly , but spoke only to me during the conversation . |
| 2 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 3 | He had n't wondered where her clothes were when he 'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term . |
| 4 | Richard Baker explains how crude the technical facilities were when he began reading the news in the 1950's . |
| 5 | What few cars there were when she arrived had disappeared . |
| 6 | Tottenham , it must be said , also had key players absent but what must be disturbing is how they failed to raise their game until a double substitution in the 70th minute . |
| 7 | This is how they came to arrive in Durham in May , 1849 . |
| 8 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 9 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 10 | This is how I came to know and subscribe to CD REVIEW whose cover-mounted CDs have been excellent . |
| 11 | It was time to move on to the offensive : ‘ What I 'd like to know is how you managed to see Newley in Primrose Hill at six o'clock . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 13 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |
| 14 | That 's how they 'd met , he told her . |
| 15 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 16 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 17 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose that 's how we came to forget you . |
| 19 | But there 's a procedure and the procedure , our stewards recognized that the procedure was there to be effectively operated and if words can resolve a problem , and that 's how we became trained in the situation affecting all our members . |
| 20 | And they tell us which boat old men been and what th See that 's how we learned did n't we . |
| 21 | And that 's how we decided to go . |
| 22 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
| 23 | ‘ And that 's how it kept going on . |
| 24 | He got into the fish trade ; got on a bit and on a bit , and that 's how he started going to Lowestoft and buying his own . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean that 's how you managed to find her ? ’ |
| 26 | I said that 's how you got to do it and then I come round and pick them up when |
| 27 | That 's how you had to do it ? |
| 28 | So that 's how I got involved . |
| 29 | That 's how I got to know Stephen . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's how I came to see them . ’ |