Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 2 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 3 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
| 4 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 5 | Instead of considering its consequences , we can consider how it arose . |
| 6 | Creed was showing some of the pieces to the tourist and explaining how they worked . |
| 7 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 8 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 9 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 10 | HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant . |
| 11 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 12 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 13 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 14 | for Linlithgowshire and younger brother to the Earl of Hopetoun , made his attack : Crump surrendered instantly , taking up Hope 's opening words by explaining how he had met Mr Newton , or was it Wilson ? — the honourable gentleman 's Factor in Preston , was it , my dear ? |
| 15 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 16 | Tennyson explaining how he came to write the Idylls of the King is another . |
| 17 | On 30 November 1983 the then Secretary of State made a statement to Parliament explaining how he proposed thereafter to exercise his powers under the subsection . |
| 18 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 19 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 20 | To this day , he wonders how she made out . |
| 21 | He wonders how he got it . |
| 22 | A roman coin belonging to the fourth year of the reign of Diocletian , AD 287 , was found on an island in Finlaggan Loch and one wonders how it got there . |
| 23 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | Huy could see no mark on the body to indicate how she had died . |
| 25 | What was the point of denying how she felt ? |
| 26 | There would be no chance to tell fitzAlan the truth , no chance to discover how he felt about her , no chance at life and happiness . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend say how we compared internationally in the 1970s and the 1980s ? |
| 28 | They confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious but would not give the woman 's identity or say how she died . |
| 29 | Say how you enjoyed the meeting which confirmed your view that the job on offer is well-suited to your abilities and experience . |
| 30 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |