Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 2 | Why do n't you get say , two four-pinters on a Monday or whenever you go shopping |
| 3 | Great for long journeys , or whenever you want to listen to the radio in private . |
| 4 | Or how they had inflicted cuts with a small sharp knife , then sprinkled salt into the wounds and kicked him round the room so he had to twist sharply and feel the pain of the salt crystals in the raw open flesh . |
| 5 | A Hoechst spokesman said the fumes were of a concentrated form of sulphuric acid which is irritating to the eyes and throat ; he said it was unclear how much material had leaked or how it had happened . |
| 6 | Since communism as well as ‘ socialism ’ has been forever assigned to history 's dustbin , there appears no pressing need for society to come to terms with just what that system was or how it continues to manifest itself . |
| 7 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 8 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 9 | It should therefore have been aware of the danger that he would try to cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to ( Eagle 's funds ) , but that it made no inquiries about the source of the monies or how he had met his obligations . |
| 10 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 11 | None had guessed the desolation she 'd experienced or how she 'd built a protective screen around her emotions , determined that neither tears nor anger would betray her inner pain . |
| 12 | I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about . |
| 13 | or where you 've put them in , it 's flowed still . |
| 14 | Roland told his half-truth about his bit of a letter , not saying when or where he had come across it . |
| 15 | It will most frequently be used in situations where the defendant has employed some violence against the victim but there is no evidence of injury or where he has threatened her with violence without using a weapon . |
| 16 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 17 | No one was going to tell her what she could or could n't do , or where she had to go . |
| 18 | What we doubt may undermine our faith , and even more so how we doubt or why we fail to deal with doubt . |
| 19 | Chopra still did not know what was being excavated , or why they had stolen the most powerful thermonuclear device ever created . |
| 20 | If we did n't know that terrible things like war had happened , or why they had happened , it would be so easy for us as a country to continue with the same policies that had led to these mistakes in the past . |
| 21 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 22 | Sometimes they 've been bitter and sometimes hopeless , but no matter how they 've fallen or why they 've fallen , the time comes when they stop and whether you like it or not , or intend it or not , stop they do . |
| 23 | Each shot is accompanied by a few paragraphs about the subject 's history , or why he chose to photograph it . |
| 24 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 25 | He looked lost and nervous , as though he was unsure of where he was or why he had bothered to come . |
| 26 | No one else in the Shah 's entourage knew who he was or why he had come . |
| 27 | The Home Secretary has not even tried to explain why the Government have changed their mind or why he has rejected the published judgment of his predecessor . |
| 28 | He can not say where he is going or why he has to leave , except to admit : |
| 29 | God knows where it 's from or why I 've got it , but I have |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |