Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And both , but most often my grandmother , would speak of her brother , Nethan ( Nathaniel ) ; of his good looks , of his skill as a musician , of how he had tried several times and failed to persuade my grandfather to enlist . |
| 2 | Charlotte put the receiver down and pondered the mystery of why she had issued such an invitation . |
| 3 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 4 | He became particularly interested in how they managed to combine this well-organized and criminal activity with an image of themselves as law-abiding citizens . |
| 5 | Henceforth she must carry on from where she had started that momentous morning in Goddy 's office . |
| 6 | There were plenty more jobs to come back to when you had spent all your money and caught hepatitis . |
| 7 | They went through the ruins of the outer office and into the dark , fire-blackened space beyond where they had found most of the bodies . |
| 8 | Sure , right after he 'd made the captain of the vital supplies ship Antares promise never to talk about Heaven 's Gate — he did n't like thinking about how he 'd done that — he 'd called Magrit over a scrambled beam . |
| 9 | ‘ Do please tell us all about how you came to do this , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 11 | Then she felt ready to look at why she had created that situation . |