Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | baby-faced double killer was jailed for life … without revealing why he murdered two pretty teenagers . |
| 2 | I do n't know why they charge three or four pounds more than a vinyl disc for them |
| 3 | Do you know why they wear one shoe ? |
| 4 | He told how he saw 2 cars going up the road and had a strong feeling there would be an accident . |
| 5 | Yellow Wolf told how he found one tipi containing two women shot dead , one still clasping her newborn baby with its head smashed as by a gun breech or boot heel . |
| 6 | Last night Nicola Simms , 21 , from Nutton , Stoke-on-Trent , told how she endured five weeks under the regime . |
| 7 | SEXY singer Paula Abdul has told how she lost two stone before marrying actor Emilio Estevez … by joining a help group for compulsive overeaters . |
| 8 | Indeed , but the impression remains stronger than the denial and one is left wondering why they chose 1950 as the cut-off point , if not to put a comfortable distance between ‘ then ’ and ‘ now ’ : the dark ages of the past and present enlightenment , which they rightly insist is illusory . |
| 9 | you know when you get two bars as opposed |
| 10 | You know when you got ten out of ten in history I still remember that . |
| 11 | Cos I remember when you did twenty seven . |
| 12 | His mother Halima , 30 , tells how they walked 60 miles to reach the town . |
| 13 | Sue Puffett explains how she became one of Britain 's few women thatchers . |
| 14 | It was a young Sharpe … who has slowed down since ( as players do when they hit 20 ) . |
| 15 | At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers . |
| 16 | I wonder where you find one of them from ? |
| 17 | Will he also explain why we have one of the few remaining Governments who still refuse to give legal protection to workers when they take legitimate and justified industrial action ? |
| 18 | Pupils should be asked to say why they think one object might be earlier in date than another . |
| 19 | but see when you get two ? |