Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he was shown a new sexual technique , he would use it the very next night on his new partner . |
| 2 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 3 | I can usually tell by when I when I 'm doing a fact-find reply obviously you find out whether their erm position is , is erm simply building society or national savings investment , or whether they 've gone into shares or unit trusts or investment trusts , and you can see at what level they 're operating and of course if they 've still got their money under the bed , then |
| 4 | The first time I tried to film mink in the wild was in the spring of 1990 , in mid-Wales , where I was making a 15-minute programme for Channel 4 . |
| 5 | It is a matter for the individual conscience of every hon. Member , which is precisely why I am allowing a free vote by my Ministers on the Bill . |
| 6 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 7 | The firm represented Paula when she was given a conditional discharge for causing £570 damage to a taxi in a drunken rage . |
| 8 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 9 | It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A , but that 's the current year position , where you 're getting a specific grant , and it is distributed on those , broadly those two factors . |
| 10 | Visas are not required for entry into Bolivia , where you are given a 30-day entrance stamp , renewable at a federal police station in any major city . |
| 11 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 12 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 13 | You should think why you 're choosing a particular role . |
| 14 | Sound public relations demands you know why you are taking a particular course of action . |
| 15 | Could this be the reason why , at times , when we are compiling a good catch , the fish suddenly go off ; as suddenly as switching off an electric light ? |
| 16 | Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school . |
| 18 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 19 | England 's second encounter with West Indies was at Adelaide , where they were given a good start of 121 by Broad and Athey . |
| 20 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
| 21 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 22 | Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft . |
| 23 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |
| 24 | The turning point was Denis Law 's infamous transfer debacle in 1973 when he was given a free transfer by United and crossed Manchester to Maine Road to join Manchester City . |
| 25 | Later that evening , when he was playing a desultory game of Scrabble with Broughton and Hoddnett , two of the older boys , he casually brought the subject up . |
| 26 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 27 | However it is believed a small number may still be provided with a home help at meal times and will not be part of the new scheme . |
| 28 | The most blatant example came in 1981 when it was made a criminal contempt punishable with two years ' imprisonment for journalists , after a trial was over , to interview jurors about their deliberations . |
| 29 | Abortion was a common-law crime until 1803 , when it was made a statutory offence . |
| 30 | LSI Logic Corp is transferring most of its semiconductor fabrication to Japan , where it is building a new 0.6 micron wafer fabrication facility in a joint venture with Kawasaki Steel Co , and will cut a total of 450 jobs . |