Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're only vagabonds , not real Romanies , ’ Farmer Yatton told Cheryl and Angela-when he came back to the farmhouse after seeing the gipsies off his land . |
| 3 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 4 | ‘ Remember how you found out about the affair in the first place ? ’ she said . |
| 5 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 6 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 8 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 9 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 10 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 11 | Many details , such as the reproduction of type-script and the printing of a page askew as if that was how it came out of the type-writer , suggest the fiction that the novel is a draft , a preliminary version , but of course the pages are printed and therefore fixed . |
| 12 | But see how it turned out in the end . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He said he was representing nobody but Marie Wilson and he told us how he climbed out of the rubble in Enniskillen five years ago and somehow , through his daughter and his religious convictions , found the courage to say , ‘ Enough is enough , there must be a better way ’ . |
| 14 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 15 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 16 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 17 | That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’ |
| 18 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 19 | Mrs Pitt was rude to me again today when I came out of the bathroom . |
| 20 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 21 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 22 | Do you know when I went out to the maths thing I was waiting for , I was there and I was heard about these forgotten a calculator ! |
| 23 | Why Rome ? ’ she asked when I popped round with the box of odd things to say goodbye . |
| 24 | I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth . |
| 25 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 26 | That 's when I threw up on the carpet . |
| 27 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 28 | A year ago I got the headlines when I pulled out of the European side against the Swiss at the last moment . |
| 29 | ‘ I had similar problems when I stopped over in the Brown Islands , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Erm I had a company called and Advertising erm where I went along to a company and would conceive promotion for them . |