Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its master stroke was its ‘ double cross system ’ , whereby it turned enemy spies into double agents , working for the British and feeding false information back . |
| 2 | But by tomorrow evening , I think , I shall know what the quality of life is — shall perhaps even have discovered how it killed Summerchild . |
| 3 | The odd thing was , that did n't seem to be how it struck McWhirter . |
| 4 | They were small handmade notes protesting against environmental pollution and complaining about how it endangered health — and they had thrown the security forces into a tizzy . |
| 5 | How it suited Bram Stoker for his Transylvania . |
| 6 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 7 | Once the trainer explained how it took time to bring the body up to peak fitness , she stopped trying to keep up and felt better for it . |
| 8 | Evolution evidently took place ; how it took place is unclear ; but , since man has language and other creatures do not , man is , after all , for all practical purposes , " a separate creation " . |
| 9 | This is how it understood Resolution 242 . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley . |
| 11 | We chart each separation and see how it affected child . |
| 12 | and all that sort of thing and how it affected people buying furniture because there was a very high luxury tax |
| 13 | In chapter 5 below , David Howell , his leading backroom boy , describes the work of the Public Sector Research Unit , how it scoured North America for business methods adaptable to Whitehall 's needs and searched for think-tanks to visit . |
| 14 | It was almost as if he had said — ‘ This man is a bit groggy ; let's dispose of him ! ’ that is how it appeared tome at the time , too . |
| 15 | This artificiality led to the zoom shot 's falling out of favour for all but occasional use ( how it helped Superman to fly will be discussed later on ) . |
| 16 | How it proved people had to be saved financially before you could save their souls . |
| 17 | However it meant Rocky was on the bench again . |
| 18 | However it took place , micro-fossils indicate that cells of this complexity first appeared about 1200 million years ago — say early September in the year of life . |
| 19 | The company 's most profitable year was 1990 when it made $7,246,667 , compared to $4,058,160 in 1989 . |
| 20 | Rumour of the partnership , to be known as C&M Arts , spread through the art market last autumn , when it purchased Mark Rothko 's ‘ Brown , Black and Blue ’ ( 1958 ) for $1 million at Sotheby 's evening sale on 17 November . |
| 21 | in real terms and that there are 15,500 more police officers , whereas Labour left the police force under establishment by 7,000 when it left office . |
| 22 | Lee may have found all that a valuable lesson , but there were times when it seemed Marvin just had n't learned at all . |
| 23 | Unix System Labs says Computer Reseller News was ‘ looking way beyond its headlights — or ours ’ last week when it said USL may adopt all or part of the Open Software Foundation 's Mach 3 microkernel . |
| 24 | Candidates actually attend for an important examination in the afternoon when it took place in the morning ! |
| 25 | THE Clinton team had no real defence plans when it took office , beyond a vague determination to cut spending . |
| 26 | This Fire Brigade was to continue as a Local Volunteer Force until the 1939–45 war when it became part of the National Fire Service . |
| 27 | THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site . |
| 28 | Amdahl 's RISC project date back to 1990 when it inherited technology from the failed Key Computer Laboratories Inc ( UX No 309 ) . |
| 29 | The reason that Xerox finally wants out is not hard to divine : back in 1989 when it created Xerox Desktop Systems Inc , which marketed the Ventura Publisher product , it said that annual business was running at $40m . |
| 30 | France stresses that , because the European Council has the people with clout , it can propel the Community forwards — as in Brussels in 1988 , when it settled budget rows , and in Rome last October , when it gave the conference on EMU a mandate . |