Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 9 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 10 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 11 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 12 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 15 | However I badgered them with the question " Why ? " |
| 16 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |
| 17 | No , I du n no why I said it at the dinner table yesterday really that was silly of me really . |
| 18 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 19 | Well that 's why I did it in the morning Jean . |