Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [Wh adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst previous research had analysed how the workforce was reproduced — how young people became young workers — the problem now was to explain the consequences of Government schemes , new kinds of training and the responses to unemployment . |
| 2 | The court had heard how the raid had been abandoned after a cache of tools and equipment commonly used in bank raids was discovered in a bus shelter . |
| 3 | It is a matter of public record that when a certain accident occurred only one day after the political pendulum had swung over and a new administration had taken office , an irate member of parliament demanded to know why the government had not taken steps to prevent such things taking place . |
| 4 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 5 | The sheriff demanded to know how the solicitor had got hold of a confidential social inquiry report . |
| 6 | By the twelfth century the typical onion shape had emerged whereby the dome was increased in diameter above the springing then became more slender and steep above to throw off the rain and snow . |
| 7 | — Slightly pluralist , but never mind , the elder bairn wanted to know why the mushroom went to the disco . |