Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 2 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 3 | The hose was where I 'd left it last summer , not neatly stored but tangled in a corner , its untidy coils covering a rake , a batch of canes and a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 4 | Clearing out all the manure into the er big heap down into the fields where you wanted to spread them next Winter . |
| 5 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 6 | The charity 's annual conference was where she chose to make her first public appearance following the controversy and she broke down in tears at the vote of confidence they gave her . |
| 7 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 8 | Receivers a bank appointed under the terms of a debenture did themselves a disservice recently when they failed to pay themselves first out of the proceeds of the receivership , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment . |
| 9 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 10 | Moses was 40 when he tried to strike his first blow for freedom ( 2:11–12 ) , which ended in disaster . |
| 11 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |