Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further study of Les Sylphides reveals Fokine 's great understanding of the dance rhythms which he felt he had to make visible whenever he was using well-recognised dance forms . |
| 2 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 3 | He was concerned to discover how they were winning lucrative car parking contracts and whether there was a leak of information from his own company . |
| 4 | Then I heard Chet using his on some records and started investigating and found out how he was getting that sound . |
| 5 | But for some reason she knew he was my brother , and she asked me how he was keeping these days . ’ |
| 6 | One French officer describes how he was buried three times that day in his trench , and dug out each time by his men . |
| 7 | I 've got caught in the post office once or twice on pension day when I was buying more stamps for my fruitless job applications . ’ |
| 8 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 9 | On the following morning , when I was attending another committee of the Cabinet , I was handed another message that the Prime Minister wished to see me … . |
| 10 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 11 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 12 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 13 | that 's right discussed why I was asking this question , thought there might be a |
| 14 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 15 | He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid . |
| 16 | It happened before her mother 's death , when she was staying two weeks in the villa with her father . |
| 17 | Beverley 's achievements made the headlines last year when she was named outright winner and Science and Technology Section winner in the Cosmopolitan /Clairol Achievement Awards , a competition which aims to highlight women who have attained excellence in their professions . |
| 18 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 19 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 20 | Is that why you were thinking some people might not want to belong to groups cos they always see er the group as detracting from their ego ? |
| 21 | ‘ That 's why you were hugging each other . ’ |
| 22 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 23 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 24 | That 's where we were given these rosettes ; on the bus . |
| 25 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 26 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 27 | And as far as their consciences were concerned , they justified the colour under their brevets that they earned during the period when they were having grave doubts about their own efficiency . |
| 28 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | It was then totally destroyed by fire , which started in the lantern roof and , despite the efforts of the keepers , spread down through the timbers , driving the men out upon the rocks , whence they were rescued next day . |
| 30 | ‘ You said there had been an accident in the section where they were handling nuclear devices . |