Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 2 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 3 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 4 | The second was when I had mistaken a stag beetle for a cockroach . |
| 5 | I claimed no personal credit for that , since , like most girls , I could always tell when I had lit a spark in a man at sight , and vice versa . |
| 6 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 7 | However I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie 's rather plodding pace . |
| 8 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 9 | The fire had died to cold ashes , but I felt my way to where I had seen a candlestick , left ready on the mantelpiece , presumably as insurance against just this event . |
| 10 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 11 | I 've caught some , where I 'd caught a bus to you , if , remember when I was decorating the flat ? |
| 12 | This is why I chose to shoot a picture of a beach in Moorea with traces of the ‘ ethnic ’ thatched houses beneath the palms , for these evoke the human world without allowing the paradise to be disturbed by humans . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that this was the main reason why I delayed accepting a promotion post until it was too late and I ran out of time . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know why I started using a palette knife ; maybe because I wanted to mould the paint to show the other side of the mountain . |