Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I used to envisage difficulties when I came to socialise in the Bangor area and would meet pupils .
2 All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track .
3 However I did throw in a little bit of doubt , there was a possible objection there that you might have apacked you sound a little bit doubtful Mrs , do you have a problem with that
4 Oh yeah , well that was where I learnt to swim in the canal on Road , er it 's the bridge that goes over Lane , near , near .
5 I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish .
6 ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’
7 One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library .
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