Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 2 | She described how they had carried their water in those sheepskins , which they call jerbah . |
| 3 | Police eyebrows were raised when they described how they prayed sitting quietly in a circle . |
| 4 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 5 | The aide , Masahisa Haibara , described how he had handled $500 million yen ( US$1.00=123.642 yen as at Dec. 14 , 1993 ) in undeclared cash donations on behalf of Kanemaru 's office . |
| 6 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 7 | With more petulance then penitence he described how he had noticed Sean 's knife as the barman was called away to serve a customer . |
| 8 | Still detached from the actual sensations , she described how he had gone under the water and then come to the surface again several times before finally drowning . |
| 9 | Rapidly he described how he had gone to the paper with two missions that Friday afternoon : to deliver his column to Tavett and to tackle MacQuillan about the increasing anger among the print unions . |
| 10 | Jerry Bailey typically articulate was being asked about his success on Ah Kong He described how he had moved alongside a European ridden horse . |
| 11 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 12 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 13 | Christopher Taylor blinked back tears as he described how he had arrived at the hospital to find his son , seven-week-old Liam , had suffered a mysterious collapse . |
| 14 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | In 1970 , the manager of professional and commercial training at the Ford Motor Co. , offering a ‘ consumer 's view ’ of the polytechnics , described how he began to consider ‘ the use of polytechnics ’ when even the CNAA was new . |
| 16 | Some men might be able to present their own case : Sir John Harington described how he intended to bring forward a suit of his own by getting into the Privy Chamber before the breakfast covers were placed and waylaying the Queen when she came out of her bedchamber . |
| 17 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 18 | For example , she described how she had gone about painting ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ ( 1926 ) which was exhibited in 1927 : ‘ I do n't start until I 'm almost entirely clear . |
| 19 | Iris stared with her mouth open as she described how she had found them . |
| 20 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 21 | The bruises on the neck and face and legs of the widow and her children were still livid on the brown skin as they recounted how they had run a gauntlet of fists and kicks and curses of their neighbours . |
| 22 | She recounted how they had gone up to Master Allingham 's chamber and , finding the door locked , had ordered the workmen from the yard below to force the chamber . |
| 23 | Co-director Deborah Coles recounted how she had spent the last 3 days attending the inquest on a man known to be at risk , who committed suicide in prison . |
| 24 | The New York Times demonstrated how he had made little impact on the movie world , until that point in time , with the observation that the lawyer Hanson was ‘ … played by Jack Nicholson whose sharp , regular features may be vaguely familiar to kids who go and watch drive-in movies . ’ |
| 25 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 26 | Aberdeen 's Eoin Jess , in the starting line-up for the first time , was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 27 | Eoin Jess was the most consistent player throughout but the longer the game went on , the more Malta demonstrated why they have proved so difficult to beat . |
| 28 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |
| 29 | A BOY yesterday told how he had developed dizzy spells and a craving for chocolate soon after a nurse accused of murdering four children came to live at his home . |
| 30 | Yesterday , PC John Jobson , 33 , told how he had become the latest statistic in the soaring number of knife-related offences . |