Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she no longer knew or cared how he looked or what he might be feeling , and surrendered herself totally to the sensation of being in his arms . |
| 2 | Or say where it hath birth |
| 3 | They confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious but would not give the woman 's identity or say how she died . |
| 4 | I do n't know what the landlord will say or do when 'e finds out , ’ she wailed . |
| 5 | The problem was she had no real idea of what she was going to say or do when she got to the château . |
| 6 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 7 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 8 | And I think if you start analysing it and trying to think back to how or why , or questioning why it happened , you start worrying about whether it 's going to happen again , and then it wo n't happen . |
| 9 | What we do n't see so often , however , is an attempt ( when the characteristic is recognized by management and leadership ) to correct it , or to understand why it exists and to try to set in train processes and plans to change these undesirable attributes . |
| 10 | There are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas . |
| 11 | Self-sealing cartridges have built-in valves and can be fitted or removed whenever you want . |
| 12 | Feel vibration from your own voice through the vibrator ; do n't think about it or analyse how it happens — just let it happen . |
| 13 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |
| 14 | Spectacles are not allowed , so if you ca n't see well enough without them but want to compete anyway you should either get a pair of soft contact lenses or see how you manage without glasses . |
| 15 | Nor does he specify what kind of effects might be achieved by a reformulation or explain how it achieves those effects . |
| 16 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 17 | Better to knowing now than to know when you arrive there . |
| 18 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 19 | Telling stories that describe how you had a similar experience fall into the same camp . |
| 20 | Make a list of words that describe how you think Brian Smart would feel about coming to school each day . |
| 21 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 22 | First , it makes the differences seem natural and inevitable — rather than questioning where they come from and what social functions they serve , readers are urged to accept and adjust to them . |
| 23 | It 's the job that dictates where we live now , I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | Was it a game today that went how you thought it might do ? |
| 25 | Briefly , er I think that explains why we have n't got the erm item mentioned in paragraph seven . |
| 26 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that conditions in these towns , particularly in the first half of the nineteenth century , were dreadful but Professor Hoskins seems more anxious to apportion blame for this than to explain why it happened , which is perhaps more important . |
| 28 | Bachelard himself preferred to give examples of such ruptures rather than theorize how they took place . |
| 29 | The way to recovery lies in learning to place that blame where it belongs , to use the anger it arouses and to give yourself the praise you deserve just for surviving the abuse . |
| 30 | . During this first hit it 's important to get the speed of the lawn , try and judge where you want the ball to end up to . |