Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to travel to Barbados as it would be completely different from where I 've lived before . |
| 2 | The whole place looked very different from when they had played their friendly match with Sir Bryan and Doctor Stevie . |
| 3 | For the woman who is already a mother , the challenges are now those of coping with growing children and seeing them leave home ; the challenges are always somehow different from how you have imagined them . |
| 4 | He became particularly interested in how they managed to combine this well-organized and criminal activity with an image of themselves as law-abiding citizens . |
| 5 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 6 | Because what we 'll have to do is negotiate at the end of the next session , whenever we 've finished , cos that 's entirely dependent on when we get fed up varies on what |
| 7 | They were both slightly embarrassed at how they had clung to each other when the thunder crashed and how the daughter had nestled in , practically under , her mother 's nightgown when the sheeting rain slashed down around them , beating on the windows , just as when she was a little girl . |
| 8 | Assuming that you have acquired some braided nylon line and a suitable handle , we are now ready for flight provided there is enough wind and the direction is favourable for wherever we intend to fly . |
| 9 | UK Gold is the new satellite and cable station that is n't coy about where it has got all its programmes from the archives . |
| 10 | ‘ You learn unbelievable things about yourself — from the tiniest things like little quirks and mannerisms to something really big , such as why you keep having the same kinds of relationships with people . ’ |
| 11 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |
| 12 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 13 | He was the sort of man she 'd seen far too much of when she 'd worked in Milan for International Models . |
| 14 | LP* ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) : maximise subject to where we have written all the constraints in ‘ < ’ form . |
| 15 | All we say is that just be a little bit more considerate about when you do do it . |
| 16 | On his return , he found that people were curious about why he had opted for such a tough mountain . |
| 17 | ‘ Do please tell us all about how you came to do this , ’ she said . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all about how you manage to cope with the success , ’ he explains |
| 19 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 20 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 21 | Could I please draw attention er you already chairman have , but it 's important from where I stand to draw attention to the words of the second criterion of the P P G. Which says that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities . |
| 22 | He was always punctilious ; she did not have a diary ; today must be the day she had thought so far off when he had proposed meeting Kit and Astrid in Paris and then taking all of them out for lunch . |
| 23 | It was , indeed , only when their conversation seemed to be moving towards a close , with Derek none the wiser about why it had taken place , that Golding began to apply a steely edge to his questions . |
| 24 | Her husband had been proud of how he had lived his life . |
| 25 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 26 | I 'm very pleased with how we 've reacted to our bad start to the season . ’ |
| 27 | It 's played totally different today , ours was quite mediocre to how it 's played today . |
| 28 | RICHARD Deacon won the Turner prize in 1987 since when he has become one of the most respected of the new wave of British sculptors of the Eighties . |
| 29 | Even I was amazed at how we kept going , especially towards the end . |
| 30 | He 'd just been rather cleverer and more subtle at how he 'd gone about seducing her , even ensuring that she 'd initiate the first moves . |