Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'opes as 'ow you 've got some pennies for me , so as I can get meself a bed for the night . ’ |
| 2 | Whenever I have argued this point with other anglers they inevitably say that all you need to do is use a long link and a short hook-length when link-legering to obtain the same effect . |
| 3 | ‘ Whenever I have had some sort of public success , ’ he reported in his autobiography , ‘ it has inevitably been followed by a period of personal financial distress and prolonged unemployment . ’ |
| 4 | Since the intra-verbal support of the infinitive is a general virtual person , the speaker must also conceive the actual support to which the infinitive 's event is incident and the relation in time between the virtual and actual persons whenever he wants to use this verb form . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And then , ‘ God , how I hate talking this way . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Oh , how I do like those lines , and when I repeat them now it brings back so many happy memories of that scamp of a grandfather of mine . |
| 9 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 10 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 11 | How she had got that name no-one dared ask . |
| 12 | Still , it is instructive to look at how she has constructed this form of speech approximating to JC , and with what degree of success . |
| 13 | But before I talk in more detail about how we hope to raise this money let me spend a little time explaining why I feel that this appeal is so vital to children everywhere . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd prefer it if you did n't tell anyone at the circuit how we come to know each other , ’ Simon said , his grey eyes trained on the road ahead . |
| 15 | How we have acquired this model of reality need not concern us , nor need the complexities of its structure . |
| 16 | How one longed to uproot those walls . |
| 17 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Work work with your pair , erm , for now , and overnight , what we 'd like you do is , obviously decide for yourself your strategy , but also if you can brief your other half , as to how they need to play that role , to get you the best opportunity of practising the skills . |
| 20 | Just how they manage to tread this highwire of deft abandon must be due , in part , to excellent artistic direction but in the main to superb dance skills . |
| 21 | Compare your findings together , asking your friend to explain how they have noticed these aspects of your personality in practice , and what they consider the most destructive , damaging elements in what they have described ( if any ) and why . |
| 22 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 23 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 24 | Social services authorities will be expected to make clear in their community care plans what steps they will be taking to make increased use of non-statutory service providers or , where such providers are not currently available , how they propose to stimulate such activity . |
| 25 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 26 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 27 | in the case of Dahl 's study of New Haven , the power of the mayor can only be assessed on the basis of his own particular preferences for urban development and how he managed to secure these preferences in the decision-making process . |
| 28 | I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple . |
| 29 | He was free to choose ( subject of course to the law of contract ) exactly how he wished to use that property . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |