Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever she did she never stayed for long . |
| 2 | And whenever she bought it always had to be the best . |
| 3 | The lasses carded wool or span whenever they had nothing else to do , just as at home . |
| 4 | To the melody of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes , the winner wrote an anti-opinion poll ditty that began : They asked me how I crossed I just said ‘ Get lost ’ |
| 5 | as if her father 's interminable complaints were not enough , no matter how she put herself out to please him . |
| 6 | How they puffed themselves up to outstrip others in their pleasure-giving powers , how they boomed when they protested they 'd avenge assaults on her innocence by others . |
| 7 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 8 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 9 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 10 | " Anything which could throw light on why someone disliked him enough to smash in his skull . " |
| 11 | ‘ The first time I ever saw you , you were in breeches with your hair all over your face and again the next day when you took me out riding . |
| 12 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
| 13 | What was more puzzling was why they needed everyone else to check as well . |
| 14 | None of this abated Joseph McCarthy 's crusading zeal in the Spring of 1950 when he found he suddenly had the ear of the nation . |
| 15 | I saw him put it in his pocket , do n't know where he got it fucking act the eejit fucking walk about places in the town where he , nobody would stop them , they 'd stop me |
| 16 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |