Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |
| 2 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 3 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
| 4 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 5 | And I learnt how we could organize to improve our conditions through sharing as a community . |
| 6 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 8 | Here we plotted how we might keep the peace when venturing beyond the wrought-iron gates . |
| 9 | Nursing my mug of tea in both hands and feeling the warmth of the rum through my body , the thought crossed my mind as I watched the mortar team sitting on the grass in front of me , ‘ What if the Germans discovered where we were , and got our range ? |
| 10 | She watched how we worked and communicated and how messages and information were received , stored , and sent out . |
| 11 | We went whenever we could in foursomes … |
| 12 | Australian captain Allan Border said : ‘ You saw how we bowled at him . |
| 13 | In short , what he knew when we left Salzburg is a mere shadow compared with what he knows now . |
| 14 | I knew when we unwrapped it , it was not for us to meddle with . ’ |
| 15 | But you knew when we wed that I was not as other men — that my life , my choices were not those of normal men . ’ |
| 16 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 17 | he said he understood why we wanted to do it . |
| 18 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 19 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 20 | It could be accomplished , I thought , by not worrying about the future , by taking things day by day , and our being perfectly honest with one another so that we knew where we were ; and loving . |
| 21 | I knew where we were now — we were back at the Avon Gorge . |
| 22 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 23 | No-one knew where we 'd gone . |
| 24 | No-one knew where we decided to stay . |
| 25 | ‘ Once he knew where we were Lewis telegraphed every few hours . |
| 26 | Like the driver I knew where we were going without being told . |
| 27 | We knew where we were . |
| 28 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 29 | In the Store we knew where we were , things worked , everything was exactly as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) decreed . |
| 30 | But if in fact we knew where we were starting from , we could see the movement from the last period , the period and we 've got an explanation of what that means |