Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know how he had forced that admission out of her , she only knew it was something she had to say . |
| 2 | Mother was really a good cook but that oven was not exactly reliable — indeed , I do not know how she managed to get such nice things out of it . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 5 | But if Roth dissents from the statement , then imagining how he came to write most of his books becomes a problem . |
| 6 | The authorities claimed that Jorge Quintana Silva was rearrested because he had contravened the conditions of his earlier release , although they did not specify how he had done this . |
| 7 | The cab drove slowly away through the bleak night while Meredith sat without moving , painfully remembering where she 'd heard that phrase before : ‘ Beggar myself ’ . |
| 8 | He was curious to remember where he 'd seen that impudent young face before . |
| 9 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 10 | He did n't fully understand why he had personalized this particular project as much as he had . |
| 11 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 13 | And do you remember when you had to cut all your borders out ? |
| 14 | wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly |
| 15 | Even finding food was difficult , as Filon , the Empress 's secretary , discovered when he went to find some soup for her in an attempt to make her eat after nearly 36 hours with virtually nothing : |
| 16 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 17 | I had remembered where I had heard that name before . |
| 18 | Being part of the racing establishment , he could be helpful to her , and he had seemed to understand why she needed to pursue this , and it would n't be that painful to see him again . |
| 19 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 20 | Wycliffe could not have explained why he had adopted this abrupt , almost challenging approach ; the doctor made him feel uneasy . |
| 21 | Recalled to the present by the cold of the flagstones numbing her feet and automatically aligning the cup handles , she suddenly realized why she had remembered that summer teatime in Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 22 | Several years ago I wrote some pieces about the Psion Organiser , telling how I had devoted many months to trying to learn how to use this tiny alpha-numeric keyboard . |
| 23 | Meredith was fascinated by the brief glimpse into his background , and wanted to ask why he needed to marry such a paragon . |
| 24 | God knows how he managed to get that out here . |
| 25 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 26 | I knew there were no flies on her but I wondered how she 'd found that out . |
| 27 | Rex wondered how he had omitted this rather obvious option from his former list . |
| 28 | Then he explained how he had found this incredible contentment : ‘ I can do all things through him who gives me strength . ’ |
| 29 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 30 | She wished that she could rely on him and wondered where she had acquired such unrealistic expectations . |