Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked Chris Evert how she knew she was ready to retire , and she said it was because sometimes she did n't care if she lost . |
| 2 | He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else . |
| 3 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 4 | But what stayed with me all evening was that fraction of an instant when I thought I was dead . |
| 5 | I did n't know about God , but that was when I knew it was serious , when she told him her secret identity . |
| 6 | He was n't happy , but could only agree when I said I was sure that he would n't want to look at a naked man . |
| 7 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |
| 8 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why I thought it was better for John to go to Barnsley where youngsters are given a chance . |
| 10 | That 's why I thought it was wrong that er British Rail should not be allowed to bid , and I think that the Government 's compromise is a very sensible one . |
| 11 | ‘ And yet , ’ he said after a moment , in a voice that was almost a whisper , ‘ and yet , last night , when you thought I was interested in you … ’ |
| 12 | She even found time to return to London for appearances on top pop shows where she revealed she was angry about the way under 14s had been excluded from her concerts . |
| 13 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ That is why we felt it was important to talk to each Scottish Homes tenant face-to-face in their own home to explain our promise to them . ’ |
| 15 | From where they sat they were able to study the women in detail . |
| 16 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 17 | So why they did it Well why they did it is clear er to make slightly bigger hall , but why they took the risk they did is not so clear . |
| 18 | Chuck noticed that instead of drinking the usual cold tea like the others he surreptitiously raised a hip flask to his lips a couple of times when he thought he was unobserved . |
| 19 | After a few minutes , when he thought I was OK , Stuart stood up . |
| 20 | I I hope so I think it was er er we bridged you know I mean maybe you know it 's often the way is n't it you know you think that 's something going on and you think it 's different to what it is when he realized we were all very level headed and that er . |
| 21 | There was also the crazy lifestyle , in particular , with Bettye Fulford , the woman he became disengaged to when he learned she was 39 not 29 and who served a parternity order on him at this year 's US Masters . |