Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 2 | MS 5 Tell me how you dealt with a recent consumer complaint about water supply being interrupted — your response — — Actions ? |
| 3 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 4 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 5 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 6 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 7 | But she turned up safe and well at dawn when she walked into a mobile police station just yards away . |
| 8 | PAMELA COUNTESS OF ONSLOW , who has died aged 76 , became a celebrity in 1973 when she emerged as a key figure in the ‘ Littlejohn Affair ’ — one of the more curious spy stories of recent years . |
| 9 | An hour later , Buzz hailed a taxi and returned to Eastbourne , where she booked into a modest residential hotel recommended by the taxi driver . |
| 10 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |
| 11 | This is why you started at a safe height . |
| 12 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 13 | It is customary to think of the defeat of Hitler as a ‘ Zero Hour ’ in German history , when everything started with a clean slate . |
| 14 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 15 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 16 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 17 | The marriage also ended with a Te Deum as the Archbishop of Paris conducted the newly-weds to the west door , whence they emerged to a great pealing of bells , salvoes of artillery and fanfares of trumpets . |
| 18 | They did n't speak again until they neared the Commemorative Hall where they came across a mobile canteen manned by the Sally Ann . |
| 19 | There is also an element of nostalgia , too , amongst the original secondary modern teachers , in the sense that , ‘ the staff knew where they stood within a small school ’ , with ‘ a more traditional authority pattern ’ . |
| 20 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 21 | Mark Porter gave the visitors the lead in 42 minutes when he ran onto a splendid cross from Liam Smyth . |
| 22 | Hoffnung was only thirty-four when he died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Hampstead 28 September 1959 . |
| 23 | Ika , however , had a brilliant command of English , to which he was to add proficiency in several other languages during the years when he practised as a noted paediatrician in Paris . |
| 24 | Mr Pickering , a welding inspector , was travelling to work in the Lake District last October when he collided with a white Mercedes wagon . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen him before , when he came with a blind man . ’ |
| 26 | However , after his stepfather 's death in 1859 , when he came into a comfortable inheritance , Wallis never again made the same artistic impact , though he remained an Academy exhibitor until 1877 . |
| 27 | In Walkington [ 1979 ] 2 All ER 716 ( CA ) , the accused was guilty under s.9(1) ( a ) when he went into a three-sided partition in the middle of a shop where the till was . |
| 28 | This week when he went to a Christian Rave in a paper hat he looked more like Elton John than the primate of all England . |
| 29 | Everton 's £1 million recruit from across Stanley Park snatched a famous victory just six minutes from time , when he drilled in a low shot from the edge of the penalty area . |
| 30 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |