Example sentences of "[was/were] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 2 | He had n't wondered where her clothes were when he 'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term . |
| 3 | Richard Baker explains how crude the technical facilities were when he began reading the news in the 1950's . |
| 4 | What few cars there were when she arrived had disappeared . |
| 5 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 6 | It was only later I suspected this was how they 'd obtained their detailed information about me . |
| 7 | In fact , for all he knew — which was n't much , since he never visited other trainers — this was how they did took . |
| 8 | That was how he became rehabilitated . |
| 9 | The only thing I could n't discover was how he managed to get you out of Gloucester and marry you after all . |
| 10 | This was how he had felt , yesterday , the days before yesterday , and intermittently in all the thousands of days since childhood . |
| 11 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 12 | That was how he had got the job , even though he was another unemployed nineteen year old . |
| 13 | That was how he had come to go on board the Santa Maria del Sud . |
| 14 | The first question he was asked was how he intended to overturn the ‘ deceit and deception ’ rife in the TCCB . |
| 15 | The first question he was asked was how he intended to overturn the ‘ deceit and deception ’ rife in the TCCB . |
| 16 | He was clutching his right leg with both hands and that was how he tried to run across the street , like some rubber-legged Vaudeville comedian . |
| 17 | It was the first time I 'd seen anyone in labour and I made a silent vow that when I was married I was n't going to have any babies if this was how you had to suffer . |
| 18 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 19 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 20 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 21 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 22 | That was how I got started . |
| 23 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 24 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
| 25 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 26 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 27 | That day and later at Ascot , rocketing clear in all his glory was how I want to remember the great Nijinsky . |
| 28 | Or that was how it had looked on the final report . |
| 29 | So that was how it had started . |
| 30 | That was how she had met Jonas Hamilton , at an antique sale in Martinique . |