Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was saying what er a good do it was how it had all gone well . |
| 2 | We are already familiar with Hobbes 's fascination with motion , and how it seemed obvious to him that motion was the one basic cause . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't think how it went undetected for so long . ’ |
| 4 | Leroy Rosenior got the equaliser just before half-time and that 's how it finished 1-1 . |
| 5 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 6 | This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go . |
| 7 | I would sit there for ages trying to figure out how it accomplished this . |
| 8 | Y'know , try and place a historical context to the work and see how it influenced other works . |
| 9 | ‘ This is how it started last time . ’ |
| 10 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless she was her usual polite society self with Mr Sands — she had learned in her papa 's home and at the embassy how to put people at their ease — and all in all the sight of his skivvy doing the gracious afforded Dr Neil another bout of inward sardonic mirth , however it delighted young Mr Sands , who thought what a splendid creature she was , and a great pity she was only a servant — she had so much presence . |
| 12 | As she moved slowly however it became apparent that her tall , slender stance was one of self-defence , not defiance , and she had not taken more than two steps when he was across the room hovering over her . |
| 13 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 14 | Public interest research group New Consumer added more pressure in March when it launched Changing Corporate Values , a revealing survey of 128 UK suppliers of consumer goods and services . |
| 15 | , they , remember last , end of last winter when it got mild after the cold spell , they were building their nests and then we got all that cold weather again , all the , all the fledglings were dead . |
| 16 | Well we travelled through the night mostly , we got to erm no we got to no-man 's land that 's when it got bad . |
| 17 | A CRANE caused traffic chaos in Belfast yesterday when it got stuck under a bridge . |
| 18 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 19 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 20 | The Express has lost millions of readers since its heyday in 1964 when it had 4.2 million circulation — and the deadly decline continues this month . |
| 21 | Growth was most rapid in percentage terms around 1831 when it reached 1.55 per cent per year and in absolute terms around 1870 . |
| 22 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 23 | Housing had been the responsibility of the Urban Renewal Authority ( URA ) since the early 1970s when it achieved independent recognition through federal legislation . |
| 24 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |
| 25 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 26 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 27 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |
| 28 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 29 | Permission was granted , however , for the weekend of June 27/28 when it operated all the advertised service trains on both days . |
| 30 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |