Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 2 | The room in which they were sitting underwent the curious shrinking process to which it was subject whenever he was reminded of Wyvis Hall or his Uncle Hilbert or even if the county of Suffolk were mentioned . |
| 3 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 4 | There , alongside Elsie Oakensen , an amiably ordinary grandmother who told how she was snatched by aliens in Northamptonshire in 1978 , a group of bone fide fruitcakes from the Aetherius Society ( who believe that Jesus and Buddha came to Earth in flying saucers from Venus ) , turned up and did their party turn . |
| 5 | She alleges that the tape shows her seven-year-old daughter Dylan describing how she was molested by Allen . |
| 6 | ANGELIC-LOOKING beauty Rebecca de Mornay revealed yesterday how she was lured into wickedness — to play the demon nanny in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle . |
| 7 | What the star was , how it was connected to Eärendil , how the name could cover both star and man , from what danger it signalled deliverance , whether that deliverance was final for the soulless elves … all these questions , and others , could find answers in the inventions of later narrative , in the different viewpoints of The Silmarillion or Bilbo 's song in The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember how it was to lie with Tom . |
| 9 | The sacrifice of Tiutiunnyk and his men , because sacrifice was how it was seen in Bazar , lingered for twenty years as a whispered obsession in the minds of the townspeople . |
| 10 | Now can you t tell me about how it was bound into sheaves ? |
| 11 | It identified the components of the bomb — not who made it or how it was put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 12 | It was the latter suggestion , and how it was put into practice , that has enslaved the working man to this day . |
| 13 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 14 | In a passage like this ( and there are several very like it , as we shall see ) , Pound 's interest in Aeneas is limited to the matter of his semidivine birth , how he was conceived by Aphrodite after she had assumed human form so as to lie with Anchises . |
| 15 | Vananu 's brother Meir Vananu told the Davar newspaper that the court had " rejected my brother 's request to allow the public to know how he was brought to Israel " . |
| 16 | DIRE Straits star Mark Knopfler joined hundreds of wellwishers who sent messages of support to pensioner Lennie Perkes after hearing how he was tortured by burglars . |
| 17 | They asked him how he was doing at school , made up questions to test him , twitted him about imaginary girlfriends , and there was always someone who wanted to know if he was going to be an RIC man like his dad when he grew up . |
| 18 | It was only when everyone was thinking of bed and Jean and Tina had gone off to give their respective babies their last feeds and Hilda was in the kitchen clearing the last of the dishes , that Bruce said , ‘ Would anyone like a nightcap ? ’ |
| 19 | The subject areas ( included in the above list ) where no-one was looking for employment were in physics , computing/physics , computing with non-IT subjects , and in optical fibres . |
| 20 | lower than it was when I was elected in June 1987 . |
| 21 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 22 | She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’ |
| 23 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 24 | I never wilted and was proud of my fighting qualities when I was looking for survival and happy for any form of success . |
| 25 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 26 | And then I did n't see her again until about nine years ago , when I was living in America and we were introduced again . |
| 27 | I was first introduced to Medau in 1947 when I was sent by Dr. Anni Noll to a post natal class which was held in Days Lane School , Sidcup . |
| 28 | I remember how happy I was when I was accepted at Hamburg University , because I could at last get away from my mother 's asparagus dishes . ’ |
| 29 | This was in a period when I was based at Llandudno and every available minute of spare time was spent in climbing and scrambling among those delightful hills . |
| 30 | It does n't float in the air it drops down to ground level and some years ago , when I was based in Ashfield , I had an experience of this . |