Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’ |
| 2 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 3 | on a , on how I find you at a particular time . |
| 4 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 5 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 7 | We never let her out , the only time she goes out is when I take her to the shop . |
| 8 | I have one month when I take it on the dot , every day , I then forget , and I think , oh God I 'm pregnant . |
| 9 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 10 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 11 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 13 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 14 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 15 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 16 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 17 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 18 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 19 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |
| 20 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 21 | Utd ( which I was totally amazed about when I read it in the newspaper ) he seems to have settled down and appears to put in more effort . |
| 22 | There are even times when I enjoy it in a masochistic kind of way — those are the times when you are really running free , bouncing along in a relaxed and easy manner , with the mind and the body in tune . |
| 23 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 24 | However I badgered them with the question " Why ? " |
| 25 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |
| 26 | That is why I took him for an agent . |
| 27 | No , I du n no why I said it at the dinner table yesterday really that was silly of me really . |
| 28 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 29 | I believe too that this analysis must proceed historically , which is why I approach it via the now familiar historical detour . |
| 30 | I have a feeling its not too different from how Leeds play now , that s why I see him as an excellent ( joint ? ) |