Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then I heard Chet using his on some records and started investigating and found out how he was getting that sound . |
| 4 | 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 … . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | that 's right discussed why I was asking this question , thought there might be a |
| 9 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 10 | He then launched an inquiry into why she was granted Legal Aid . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 13 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's why you were hugging each other . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ! … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 19 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 20 | He had certainly entered Edward 's service by 1274 , when he was appointed joint custodian of the vacant see of Durham . |
| 21 | Anderson 's life in Africa ended in 1978 , when he was appointed Managing Director of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation ( CFTC ) . |
| 22 | After the war Humphrys became political agent , Khyber ( 1919 ) , and deputy foreign secretary of the government of India ( 1921 ) , a post which he held until 1922 , when he was appointed British minister to Afghanistan . |
| 23 | He was a much-respected college commander at Sandhurst from 1953 to 1955 , when he was appointed British instructor at the US Command and General Staff College . |
| 24 | His show-business break came in 1956 when he was appointed musical director for the show Cranks which ran in London and on New York 's Broadway . |
| 25 | Colbeck remained as master in the Wilson Line until 1912 , when he was appointed marine superintendent in the London office . |
| 26 | Through his veins flowed a potent mixture of Mexican and Irish blood , and a little goading from the US Marine Corps was enough to have him taking them all on when he was filming Guadalcanal Diary in 1943 . |
| 27 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 28 | but one suspects there were times last summer when he was suffering some torment . |
| 29 | However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past . |
| 30 | The 14th Dalai Lama , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , fled to India , where he was granted political asylum and in 1964 China declared him to be a traitor . |