Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was allowed to go West again after 20 years , two years ago , I could n't believe how it had been transformed . |
| 3 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 4 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 5 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 6 | Perdita listened to her mother grinding gears and going on and on and on about how marvellously Perdita had played and how it had been the proudest moment of her life , and how everyone from Rupert to Brigadier Canford said what a great future she had and Drew this and Drew that . |
| 7 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 8 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 9 | But now , talking to Joan , seeing her changing expressions , he asked himself how it had been so — apart from their dress , it seemed to him then that there was after all no strong likeness between them . |
| 10 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 11 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 12 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |
| 13 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 14 | The missing reliquary , it seemed , was back where it belonged , just as a witness had been found who could and would confirm exactly how it had been made to disappear . |
| 15 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 16 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 17 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 18 | There were many theories about how it had been carried out and who had been the accomplices . |
| 19 | Jessamy found herself remembering how it had been the very first time between them , it had been exactly the same , this sudden wanting . |
| 20 | Folly frowned , trying to remember how it had been . |
| 21 | Funny how it had been malai policy to murder him and , earlier , the young men in the television crew , and now it was policy to stand them , or their kind , a round at the bar . |
| 22 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 23 | She only knew a fraction of how it had been . |
| 24 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 25 | For several days previously this was how it had been : hot and breezy during the day , warm and still through the night . |
| 26 | We found all the little bits and pieces , the er , er , idiosyncrasies of how it had been prepared previously by yourself , |
| 27 | In March computer and information services specialists from all over Scotland and Tyneside converged on the Stirling Management Centre to see the CWIS in action and to hear how it had been put together . |
| 28 | How , how it had been Mark is you can see from the floor here , there was a wall across here |
| 29 | Why and how it happens is unknown . |
| 30 | How it happens is another matter , and apparently undecided . |