Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dared he make such judgements on such a brief acquaintance — and how mortifying that he was right about her inadequacies . |
| 2 | How dared he use such effrontery ? |
| 3 | How did they do that Kenny , I mean what good , who gave that to you ? |
| 4 | He examined the problems of ‘ How Did We Get This Way — And Where Are We Going ? ’ , arguing that since the last war Britain especially has presented management with a host of entirely new problems . |
| 5 | How did we get this piece . |
| 6 | H how did he shout those words ? |
| 7 | How did you do this gravy then dad ? |
| 8 | So how did you make any friends ? |
| 9 | And how how did you make these weer ones ? |
| 10 | ‘ How did you know this man 's name was Quince ? ’ asked Bramble with a hint of incredulity . |
| 11 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 12 | ‘ How did you get this address ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | How did you get this stick then ? |
| 14 | But when and how did I make this escape ? |
| 15 | But how had he learned that expertise ? |
| 16 | How had she known such things ? |
| 17 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 18 | ‘ Why did ye let that oul bastard treat ye that way ? ’ |
| 19 | Why did they say that migration occurs even when we have high unem unemployment ? |
| 20 | He looked perfectly amiable , so why did she get this feeling of apprehension , as though he was playing some sort of waiting game ? |
| 21 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 22 | Why did I have this feeling ? |
| 23 | The first question really should be ‘ why did I buy this machine ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Why did you send that man to my office ? |
| 25 | Why , oh , why did you set such enquiries in train ? |
| 26 | I 've got some erm announcements for this morning , Vicky , erm first of all I 'd like to introduce you to Anthony who comes from Longman 's Dictionaries why did , why did you do that Melanie ? |
| 27 | Why did you do that David ? |
| 28 | Oh , why did you paint this picture ? |
| 29 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 30 | Why did you come this way ? ’ |