Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 2 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 3 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 4 | An account of where in the development of individuals evolved changes productive of shifts in adult behaviour are expressing themselves . |
| 5 | Data from HIPE give some indication of where in the hospital service older people are treated . |
| 6 | These asked for an end to the current system of zero-rating goods bound for export to other EC states in favour of levying VAT on all taxable goods sold , regardless of where in the Community they are to be sold . |
| 7 | It is significant that it does indeed sometimes happen ; we return to the question of when at the end of this section . |
| 8 | They actually said then that they contr that they had an influence on how on the cost and where they bought it from . |
| 9 | But it must be said that in some cases the DCSL who had overseen the ordering was uncertain as to where in the school the books had ended up , let alone their frequency of use . |
| 10 | The service may be asked , for example , to provide the exact wording of a piece of legislation to support a tribunal hearing , to clarify confusing items or to point to where in the information system an item may be found . |
| 11 | From where to where in the body ? |
| 12 | I 'm a very new driver so I 'm very careful and very cautious , not a very good pedestrian , I tend to wave a fist and walk out whereas I always give the other person , you know I always sort of wave them on whereon in the car being a very new driver I am very cautious |
| 13 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 14 | my parents are far more worried about how at the party than the actual kids are . |
| 15 | A record is made of details such as where on the site a sherd was found , its colour , type of fabric , and decoration . |