Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [was/were] the [num ord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When was the first time you were in the dark , locked in and taken over by someone else ? |
| 2 | When was the last time we were supposed to have a world-beating aluminium engine ? |
| 3 | When was the last time we won 5 in a row ( is it 5 ? ) ? |
| 4 | I mean , when was the last time ANYBODY bothered mentioning the War in any public forum , let alone in a skateboard magazine ? |
| 5 | When was the last time anybody saw hand towels or soap or a bog roll ? |
| 6 | When was the last time your pond froze over ? |
| 7 | ‘ When was the last time he came home ? ’ persisted the Brigadier . |
| 8 | He is the last line of defence but when was the last time he won us points with a save ? ? ? |
| 9 | When was the last time you actually wanted to have friends round ? |
| 10 | I know you can see the trees , the view from the window or the picture on the wall — but when was the last time you really looked at them ? |
| 11 | When was the last time you bought an item at one shop , only to find that the same item was much cheaper in another shop ? |
| 12 | When was the last time you drove a car just for the thrill of it ? |
| 13 | ‘ When was the last time you did see him ? ’ |
| 14 | When was the last time you would have sold your soul for a stick of celery ? |
| 15 | ‘ When was the last time you met ? ’ |
| 16 | When was the last time you saw a show of William Blake 's work in a gallery ? |
| 17 | I just posed the question : ‘ When was the last time you were on a donkey and got sucked off ? ' ’ |
| 18 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 19 | When was the last time you prayed ? 1945 ( approx ) |
| 20 | When was the last time you took a risk at work ? |
| 21 | Stephen looked mystified as she went on , ‘ When was the last time you really listened to anything I had to say unless it was about business ? |
| 22 | When was the last time you prayed ? |
| 23 | When was the last time you had fun ? page 74 |
| 24 | When was the last time you were changed ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When was the last time you saw your brother , Miss Garland ? ’ |
| 26 | Now erm the , wh if we go into your , the , the health , your health situation how er when was the last time you saw the doctor ? |
| 27 | So when was the last time you made a presentation and then what I 'd like you to do and there are three lines there you may only have one you may have two , three , four objectives |
| 28 | ‘ When was the last time you saw me sweat like this , ’ he asked the throng of journalists and photographers at the news conference . |
| 29 | When was the last time you saw your doctor ? |
| 30 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |