Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to beckon him ; whenever I met local people on the road , there was never time to talk . |
| 2 | Kylie 's organisation believed the unofficial pictures were literally losing their star millions and whenever they saw those pictures on sale they moved to sue the publishers . |
| 3 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 4 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
| 5 | IT WOULD be fun to let the stories grow about how I obtained THOSE pictures of the Duchess of York cavorting topless with her ludicrously self-styled ‘ financial adviser ’ Johnny Bryan . |
| 6 | As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record . |
| 7 | Last night Nicola Simms , 21 , from Nutton , Stoke-on-Trent , told how she endured five weeks under the regime . |
| 8 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 9 | ( How she loved that word for the theatre … ) |
| 10 | SEXY singer Paula Abdul has told how she lost two stone before marrying actor Emilio Estevez … by joining a help group for compulsive overeaters . |
| 11 | I shall take your Christmas pudding with me , and the box of dates too , and I shall tell them all how you came this morning with presents and decorations and then found the mistletoe for me ! |
| 12 | Oh , how we loved those trains in the good old days ! |
| 13 | This is not how they perceived each other in the courtship . |
| 14 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |
| 15 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me how he drove four horses with coach to London . ’ |
| 17 | This is how he described that weekend in a book called A King 's Story : |
| 18 | I thought of that little girl last week when I nibbled some chocolates at a London theatre . |
| 19 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 20 | The only time I 've flown was when I paid five bob for a trip in Alan Cobham 's flying circus . ’ |
| 21 | There was one time when I moved 14 times in seven months — that really disrupts your education . |
| 22 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 23 | The first time , I went by boat , the second time by plane and finally by helicopter — to the nearby island of Moorea , where I spent several days in search of the perfect image . |
| 24 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 25 | And that 's where I got this job with |
| 26 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 27 | It seemed perfectly natural that I should spend one evening being waited on by uniformed retainers at the home of an important industrialist whose son I taught , and the next in a seedy bar drinking beer with a group of workers from the factory where I gave private courses in technical English . |
| 28 | They are , that 's why I got that offer for three big ones . |
| 29 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 30 | He said he could understand my hatred of war , and why I rejected all involvement in war and the governments that perpetrated it . |