Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [be] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a very old hand in lobbying er which shows it 's how it 's we 've got it this far . |
| 2 | I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side . |
| 3 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 4 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 5 | That 's how it was It had fallen apart with er without . |
| 6 | Really the only reason I could think of when it 's you know it is important to put things on paper are really like the last three bits that we talked the last three things we talked about which detailed information would need to be there so people can read it when you know it 's got to get to a lot people not all in the same place at the same time or when it 's you need a copy . |
| 7 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |
| 8 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 9 | I keep squinting out the window of the 188 bus to recognize where it was we hid Patterson . |
| 10 | No one ever knew where it was she hoped to go . |
| 11 | And without even checking where it was he planned to take her . |
| 12 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
| 13 | A Specimen Corporate Finance engagement letter is set out in Section 1101.1 We are required to document why it is we consider the client may properly be regarded as a Corporate Finance client . |
| 14 | EDITOR 'S NOTE : We must document on our files why it is we consider that the client may be regarded as a corporate finance client . |
| 15 | It takes time to understand this need , but I believe that the more we write , the more fully we grasp why it is we want to , have to . |
| 16 | She 's going no I wo n't , you know , not unless you tell me what it i , why it is you do n't wan na do it ! |
| 17 | I 'll give you the money for your flight back to wherever it is you came from — ’ he might have said ‘ crawled from ’ , such was the contempt in his voice ‘ — all right ? ’ |
| 18 | meant it to be on Thursday ours not to reason why apparently erm Sister Josephine us , she went off by train to wherever it is she 's gone , but will be coming back with another Sister in a car tomorrow |
| 19 | He would n't have got away with talking to servants that way in his mess or wherever it was he spent his working life . |
| 20 | He reached inside his jacket for his notebook but I said ‘ Sunil ’ before he could clear his shoulder-holster , or wherever it was he kept it . |
| 21 | And that means a reason right there on the spot , otherwise , once out of sight , he 'd simply have made off for wherever it was he wanted to be . |
| 22 | You said welcome to , wherever it was you know , we thought you came to us . |
| 23 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |