Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 2 | I burst out laughing because all the costermongers in the Whitechapel Road always did whenever they heard that word , although I admit that at the time I did n't have a clue what a virgin was . |
| 3 | Whenever they reached one of these rifts the rabbits huddled together , waiting for Hazel or Bigwig to climb the further side and find a way forward . |
| 4 | Kylie 's organisation believed the unofficial pictures were literally losing their star millions and whenever they saw those pictures on sale they moved to sue the publishers . |
| 5 | Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information . |
| 6 | Whenever they caught one of Huey 's candymen , they gave him a kicking , broke some bones . |
| 7 | Clark demonstrates that older people tried , where possible , to set up contractually based arrangements ( some of them enforceable through the courts ) to secure their livelihood and care in old age , through a system whereby they surrendered some of their rights to their land to a specified individual , in return for agreed services — ‘ individually arranged pension benefits ’ ( ibid . |
| 8 | Each time I 'd wondered how they carried such a heavy load : how the pine-needles even stuck together , bound as they were with a single length of rope . |
| 9 | In ‘ Controlling an epidemic ’ Brookbanks & Hampstead describe how they contacted intravenous drug users and their contacts to help stop the spread of an outbreak , and WHO recommend that all health care workers receive vaccination against hepatitis B. |
| 10 | Lorenzo 's Oil , starring Nick Nolte , Susan Sarandon and Peter Ustinov , is a moving account of how the couple came up with the theory that a specialised oil could be used to treat their son 's condition , adrenoleukodystrophy ( ALD ) — and how they achieved unprecedented international scientific co-operation to ensure it was perfected and produced . |
| 11 | This is not how they perceived each other in the courtship . |
| 12 | How they acquired this estate is not explained . |
| 13 | BOTTOM OF DIVISION TWO ( How they finished last season ) |
| 14 | It was , for what it 's worth , how they had first met , Rab in a leather jacket , with his milk bottles , his resemblance to Elvis — in Jailhouse Rock — what had made her wild about him . |
| 15 | That was good , how they got those . |
| 16 | Blanche could n't remember later how they kissed first . |
| 17 | His mother Halima , 30 , tells how they walked 60 miles to reach the town . |
| 18 | TWO heroin addicts were jailed yesterday after a court heard how they walked unchallenged into a hospital 's maternity unit and stole an 11-hour-old boy . |
| 19 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
| 20 | Now I do n't know how they managed this dear because she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around and there you are you see . |
| 21 | Many of the older Suffolk farmworkers , now long retired , remember riding the goaf as lads ; and they have described how they rose higher and higher on the mow as it increased in depth . |
| 22 | I know how they did that as well . |
| 23 | I 'm rather surprised that but there you are this this er this stuff this is coming they were both being one and another er put here and er um um I suppose the idea is that the er two people should be fairly good but I think it 's going somewhere and as I say it 's down again … let's see what else has gone er the the this is just I do n't know how she di ’ how they did this but it must have been fairly hard when they did it and er I think there is n't v-very much there I think . ’ |
| 24 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |
| 25 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |
| 26 | I am not sure how they reconciled that situation , since the Methodists were very much against alcoholic drink . |
| 27 | For example , the Zuwaya used to own the desert , people said , and explained how they taxed passers-through . |
| 28 | ‘ Let's think how they worked that one . ’ |
| 29 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 30 | Together they fought the general election of February , 1974 when UUUC candidates secured eleven seats out of twelve for 51% of the votes and also the UK general election of October 1974 when they secured ten seats for 58% of the votes . |