Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , they prohibited HERA from endowing her horse with speech , for they considered this unnatural ; they would also return the sun to its true course , whenever it deviated for any reason . |
| 2 | ‘ My God , ’ he choked , ‘ how I long for that day ! ’ |
| 3 | Erm but how you legislate for common sense and so on |
| 4 | I think I 've known how you feel for some time now . |
| 5 | Not even a highly-publicised- and subsequently denied-exchange between her and jealous rival Wendy James of the band Transvision Vamp — Wendy : ‘ I do n't know how they vote for that Aussie Bimbo , she sounds like my dog . ’ |
| 6 | The police fear that the remainder of the device was removed in order for the thieves to find out how it works for future occasions . |
| 7 | If sometimes , when I canvassed for other people at elections , addressed envelopes , drafted manifestos , I felt like an alcoholic sneaking a secret drink , this was a purely subjective analogy . |
| 8 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 9 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 10 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 11 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 12 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 13 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 14 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 15 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 16 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 17 | On returning to the USA she joined the UMC 's Board of Global Ministries where she stayed for 29 years until her retirement in 1990 . |
| 18 | I also stayed at Scarborough where we stayed for two weeks . |
| 19 | There are numerous good restaurants in Zakopane and similarly in the places where we travel for optional excursions . |
| 20 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |
| 21 | Once the children were fully fit , the family went on to Paris , where they stayed for two months . |
| 22 | Once in South Africa , they went to Johannesburg where they stayed for twenty weeks before going on to Durban , Port Elizabeth , Cape Town and Kimberley . |
| 23 | During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly . |
| 25 | The doctor , who died last summer , broke health service guidelines when he worked for six shifts in a casualty department without warning the hospital involved , it was claimed . |
| 26 | There is no need hereto go into the rivalries of the various mathematicians involved in the search for the cubic formula — however it makes for fascinating reading ( [ 71 ] , [ 64 ] , [ 75 ] ) . |
| 27 | She 's over an inch less where it counts for that dress . ’ |
| 28 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 29 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 30 | After the latter match there was a flurry of interest in him from Football League clubs and Fred soon signed for Northampton , where he played for seven seasons before moving to Palace in February 1936 . |