Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She understood at once about me — how I always loved bright colours , outrageous clothes , unsuitable jewellery — but she seems to prefer to be invisible . |
| 2 | How they ever made any money at the Horizon factory I shall never know . |
| 3 | But it has been tried : Birmingham City Council ran billboard advertisements a few years ago imaginatively showing what the SSD actually did , how it positively affected old people , young people , and everyone in between . |
| 4 | John Paul II described how he personally scrutinised successive drafts — 10 in all — which were presented for his consideration . |
| 5 | In all my life there have been very few occasions when I badly wanted more money and that was one of them , because on my wage of three shillings a day as an AC2 I was unable to drape her with expensive clothes . |
| 6 | Somehow I find a little peace of mind knowing that I 'm in the one place in the world where I once knew true happiness . ’ |
| 7 | The acid test was when I told him why I never had any money to spend , but he was very understanding . |
| 8 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 10 | That was an enormous transformation from the world where you only met gay people at specific times of day in specific places under specific circumstances . |
| 11 | Can you tell me where you actually got that information from ? |
| 12 | Brian and I were out riding one morning when we suddenly heard heavy firing ahead of us . |
| 13 | That was when we usually saw these cases — when it was too late . |
| 14 | And it seems strange in an area where we just lost General Hospital and everything has moved to , that , which is a nationally renowned hospital . |
| 15 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 16 | The latter were forced to repair to the waiting area where they enviously sipped ginger beer while waiting their turn and watching the old horses pull the machines into the water , one after another . |
| 17 | Conversely , CD68 + L1 - macrophages abounded in the dome area ( Fig 2B and Table IV ) , and such large cells were also frequently seen in the germinal centres where they apparently represented tingible body macrophages . |
| 18 | He suffered a similar injury against Leicester City earlier in the season when he also scored two goals . |
| 19 | Hrawi underlined his determination to press ahead with the security plan on Oct. 24 when he formally ordered all militias to leave Beirut and to hand over positions to the Lebanese Army . |
| 20 | However he never considered fitting air brakes to the tractor . |
| 21 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
| 22 | He arrived in Britain , where he soon found supporting roles in the cinema , notably in Victoria the Great ( 1937 ) , Herbert Wilcox 's vehicle for his future wife , Anna Neagle ; then as a schoolmaster in Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) ; and finally in Carol Reed 's Night Train to Munich ( 1940 ) , in which he played a treacherous Gestapo agent with a telling degree of coldness . |
| 23 | He accepted an offer in 1912 from the Glasgow and South Western Railway to become their locomotive superintendent in Kilmarnock , where he immediately made sweeping changes to their previous design practices which were neither popular nor generally successful . |
| 24 | Jack would be very much surprised if his friend would n't be living in one of those houses in Ploughman 's Lane like the one where he sometimes did electrical jobs with real old French furniture and real oil paintings and the kind of china you looked at but did n't eat off . |
| 25 | Often in films someone goes to a house where he once spent happier times and , slowly , the screen if filled with laughing . |
| 26 | He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying . |
| 27 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |