Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I heard Chet using his on some records and started investigating and found out how he was getting that sound . |
| 2 | But for some reason she knew he was my brother , and she asked me how he was keeping these days . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 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 | that 's right discussed why I was asking this question , thought there might be a |
| 8 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 9 | Well la , last year , when you were doing that painting for er , Derek . |
| 10 | Well I knew where she were heading that night that day she came to our house . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why you were hugging each other . ’ |
| 13 | That 's where we were given these rosettes ; on the bus . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | but one suspects there were times last summer when he was suffering some torment . |
| 18 | However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |
| 20 | This will happen even though the reasoner would , in principle , be capable of stating why it was rejecting each reading . |
| 21 | He did n't know why he was saying these words ; deep down he knew that he should be running back to the truck and getting the rescue organized . |
| 22 | He still had a low boredom threshold — which was why he was spending less time going to Equity Council meetings . |