Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 2 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 3 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 4 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |
| 5 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 6 | Haltingly , she spoke about her sudden irrational terror on the dance floor , the nun leading her away , how she found herself in a bedroom with Jack Butler . |
| 7 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 8 | well so that 's how it 's pleaded and that 's how we built it into the , these cases which I was referring to where an agreement is the object or the , the means or the consequence of an agreement , they enforce within five , the action is unlawful and of course there 's the final and fourth way in which it could be devoured this , because it , and again quoting the words from the cases , tends to have restricted affect on the market , I think your Lordship you can see how we pleaded it in paragraph two , two , three , it 's enforcing the consequence of the unlawful underline previous . |
| 9 | That 's how we covered it at the N E C. |
| 10 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 11 | And here 's how they made it to the semi-finals ; not an easy run , Wakefield was their last step . |
| 12 | I do n't know how they did it in the end , but |
| 13 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 14 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 15 | In the dark she could ignore how he repelled her in the light . |
| 16 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 17 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 18 | So there was always trouble when someone presented him with a bill . |
| 19 | She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket . |
| 20 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 21 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 22 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 23 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 24 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 25 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 26 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 27 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 28 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 29 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 30 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |