Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [Wh adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Izzie , watching the figure loping towards them with his strange , wolf-like walk , suddenly knew how the Devil will look on the day of his Redemption . |
| 2 | Lord only knew when the telephone was going to be installed in the house , but if that man thought that he could speak to her however he wanted , safe in the knowledge that she was incommunicado , then he had another think coming . |
| 3 | The seats were like upholstered benches , and God only knew how the gear-stick operated . |
| 4 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 5 | ‘ What happens now ? ’ she finally asked when the silence between them had become stretched to breaking-point . |
| 6 | So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’ |
| 7 | I kept a log , naturally , and therefore have it recorded that it took no less than thirty-seven of these supposed flight experiments before my trusty long-handled trowel , in biting the Skull Grounds ' earth skin , struck something harder than the sandy soil , and I finally knew where the dog 's bones were . |
| 8 | He further indicated how the Department hopes to go about restructuring . |
| 9 | and somehow I do n't know how , but somehow they always knew when the train was being loaded up with tanks and then that was the night we would get a raid and of course , you see , they all ra tried for the station . |
| 10 | It was a game in the bower , for the cup would be returned empty after a while , but no-one ever saw where the milk went . |
| 11 | I looked over his shoulder and saw Fra Angelico 's famous ‘ Annunciation ’ ; and at once knew why the colonnade outside had seemed so familiar . |
| 12 | ( Ever wondered where the expression ‘ tailgate trombone ’ came from ? ) |
| 13 | Ever wondered why the formula for Coca-Cola is such a closely guarded secret ? |
| 14 | I always wondered where the money for dean came from , we should have held onto chapman , strenghten our back four , and would have had the money to hold onto Batty . |
| 15 | He also told why the decision was made to take sterling out of the ERM . |
| 16 | They also showed how the construct system , freed from the constraints of functional looking , could toy with alternatives and delight in the steady stream of arousal this created . |
| 17 | He also explained how the switch to contract staff is not only cost effective but gives JS access to more specialised skills and greater resources . |
| 18 | I often wondered where the money came from . |
| 19 | He had been milling in a modest way at Grove Mill near Painswick , but presumably saw where the future lay . |
| 20 | I would be surprised if our Labour candidate even knew where the Business Venture could be found . |
| 21 | The Director of Studies then asked why the syllabus did not set out the relationship between assessment criteria and objectives more explicitly . |
| 22 | After encouraging them to express their feelings , the therapist then explained how the change in Tony 's behaviour and attitudes might be understandable in view of his current situation . |
| 23 | So … he 's in a mighty big hurry to read it , she decided , then wondered why the thought filled her with irritation . |
| 24 | Addressing the conference , Clinton acknowledged that government policy on the issue had been confused : " Different federal agencies hitched their horses to different sides of the cart and then wondered why the cart would n't move forward . " |
| 25 | I was beginning to wonder if something had happened , and then wondered how the devil I was going to tell Maura if it had ! |
| 26 | I never realized how the world was watching us . |
| 27 | An Angster recently asked why the music press devotes so much attention to US bands . |
| 28 | At night the place was jumping , the whistling urinals were all occupied , and then the smell of piss and semen was the smell of ecstatic terror , for we never knew when the place would be raided by the cops , and the person standing at the next stall playing with himself might be a copper 's nark , an informer or an agent provocateur . |