Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 2 | It 's funny how he manages to keep awake ! |
| 3 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 4 | I thought it funny how I kept seeing dead cows but no live ones . |
| 5 | And was this how he had got under Elise 's skin ? |
| 6 | Is this how you want to go down in history ? |
| 7 | Mr Hall hit the headlines in 1985 when he drove to work as a groundsman at Hummersknott School , Darlington , in a Silver Shadow putting the head teacher 's Escort to shame . |
| 8 | I was 22 when I had to suffer the pressure , perhaps now at 27 I would cope much better . |
| 9 | It was left to the York writer , Hugh the Chanter , to tell us that after Ralph died in 1122 , his successor , William of Corbeil , took them to Rome in 1123 when he went to get his pallium . |
| 10 | Is this why we have made so little progress ? |
| 11 | 2 When you have finished compare your definitions with those that other people have written . |
| 12 | China seriously escalated the dispute on Nov. 30 when it threatened to cancel , on Hong Kong 's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 , all commercial contracts , leases and agreements between the Hong Kong government and the private sector signed without full Chinese approval . |
| 13 | Users often do not notice that they have miskeyed a word , and many systems do not make it clear why they have failed to find anything . |
| 14 | I 've argued that for twenty years , now suddenly overnight it 's become unfashionable and let's make it clear why it 's become unfashionable . |
| 15 | how funny , clever how it 's done is n't it ? |
| 16 | When you think about it , it 's amazing how they do learn what the different aids mean . |
| 17 | It 's amazing how we 've united the village and I feel good to be a part of this village |
| 18 | Amazing how I seem to have forgotten all this . |
| 19 | It was , therefore , to some degree the older generation attacking the younger , much as an eighteenth century minister might have attacked the political involvement by ministers in the 1830s and 1840s when they refused to pay Church Rates and supported the Rev. Edward Miall 's British Anti-State Church Association . |
| 20 | I think I was about nineteen when I started taking drugs . |
| 21 | She was somewhere in her thirties : Jonathan had been nineteen when she had seduced him . |
| 22 | The Supreme Soviet immediately approved the decree , in contrast to its response in October 1991 when it had overturned the state of emergency imposed by the Russian administration in an attempt to subdue a rebellion in Chechnia [ see p. 38582-83 ] . |
| 23 | He traced Maldom Bada 's dissent back to March 1991 when he declined to give up the post of MPS vice-president on being appointed Minister of the Interior . |
| 24 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 25 | She was thirteen when she started sleeping with her boyfriend : |
| 26 | I 'm still thinking about B S 5750 where we have to make sure that not only we know what training we have given people , that we also continue to give them , future appropriate training so that they can do their jobs , and so compliance by B S 5750 is not just trapping history it is also making sensible plans about the present and the future . |
| 27 | I think they 're quite abrupt and rude whenever I 've phoned them up . |
| 28 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 29 | ‘ It is incredible how she has fitted in , ’ Mike says . |
| 30 | Your questions and general approach should draw out of each subordinate how they intend to proceed , giving guidance and information only where this is essential . |