Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did they draw a face ? |
| 2 | How did one stop a person like Harriet , headstrong , independent , beholden to no one ? |
| 3 | How did one become a Muslim ? |
| 4 | How did she get a letter mum ? |
| 5 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 6 | How did you tell a man like Tony Cashman to lighten up , to ease off ? |
| 7 | I remember when I we I was working when I first met her and I 've you know , just before I had Scott and she said , well how did you get a job ? |
| 8 | ‘ Then how did you become a teacher ? ’ |
| 9 | Presently she said , ‘ Then why did they have a row ? ’ |
| 10 | Why did they need a boat-house ? |
| 11 | Why did I want a convertible so desperately ? |
| 12 | Why did I buy a number of odd cones of cotton ? |
| 13 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |
| 14 | Why did you take a whore ? |
| 15 | Why did you have a sweet at school ? |
| 16 | He thought : And why did you have a gun for Christ 's sake ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why did you become a Muslim ? ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ Why did you get a taxi ? ’ he asked , watching her intently , his body very still . |
| 19 | Oh why did you get a merit mark for French ? |
| 20 | Why did it have a question mark ? |
| 21 | Now why did it get a reprieve ? |
| 22 | Where did they get a name like that ? |
| 23 | ‘ Where did he get a gun ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Where had she got a tan like that after the Winter they had just endured ? ’ |
| 25 | Why had he written a letter anyway ? she wondered thoughtfully . |
| 26 | Why had he become a Muslim ? |
| 27 | Why had he used a herring-bone sea in one of his Cornish scenes and painted the sky lemon-green ? |