Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultant was visibly shaking as he described how the 12-year-old victim had sustained severe head and facial injuries . |
| 2 | Mr Taylor , of Grantham , said Liam had gradually improved , and his voice choked with emotion as he described how the next afternoon his son had opened his eyes and reached for his teddy bear . |
| 3 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 4 | Miller described how the original system users 1,000 mainframe Cobol programs and 75Gb of data on a DB2 DASD data farm , with 400 plus Sun SPARC workstations running C application code and 15Gb of Sybase-held data . |
| 5 | Miller described how the original system uses 1,000 mainframe Cobol programs and 75Gb of data on a DB2 disk data farm , with 400-plus Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc workstations running C application code and 15Gb of Sybase-held data . |
| 6 | For the next ten minutes the line hummed as Forbes recounted how the Iranian exile and her daughter had been seized in the middle of the morning rush hour . |
| 7 | In An Englishwoman ‘ s Work among Workingmen , 1875 she recounted how the dramatic language of evangelical religion enabled her to press her case : |
| 8 | John Stewart demonstrated how the budgetary environment can impact on the culture of public sector organisations . |
| 9 | As the bride was only sixteen and moved in ‘ international circles ’ in Italy , the press had a day-out on the wedding and ‘ Student of the Press ’ noted how the British press ‘ had shown its enterprise and sturdy individuality . |
| 10 | Anne Lennox and Liz Weeks told how the new crisis has ‘ opened old wounds ’ and said : ‘ We would n't want families of British servicemen to go through the pain we had to endure . ’ |
| 11 | Yesterday , cuddling three-month-old Jennifer at her home in Bedford , she told how the passionate affair began — and how she was left to bring up her daughter on her own . |
| 12 | The despatch told how the Prussian garrison at Charleroi was falling back , not on Brussels , but north-east to where the main Prussian army was assembling . |
| 13 | Lynn Boyle , a social worker from area 2 , told how the Inland Revenue had scuppered a plan to get unemployed women to provide informal care in return for expenses and small payments . |
| 14 | The first report in 1954 showed how the advantageous position of children from professional family backgrounds increased with age , while the second report in 1959 demonstrated not only that ‘ the available resources of men ( and presumably also of women ) of high ability are not fully used by the system , ’ but that this wastage was highest among men of the lower socio-economic groups . |
| 15 | Knox , for example , showed how the original RAWP formula essentially allocated resources according to crude death rates . |
| 16 | We also showed how the indiscriminate use of praise is a poor substitute for positive and specific feedback . |
| 17 | Only one small , white-highlighted ripple showed where the supple arrow of his body had pierced the water . |
| 18 | I think you were all given a timetable last Monday which showed where the various advocacy things are going to be . |
| 19 | That larger smear in the sky showed where the Prussian army faced the main force of the French and where the day 's real battle would be fought . |
| 20 | A muddy cut through the jungle showed where the last car had passed around it . |
| 21 | A rusting hulk at the bottom of the pit showed where the last car had n't . |
| 22 | The one case where a contested trial was covered by a range of newspapers indicated how the popular press focus on the potential fall of the near-famous and the introduction of gratuitous detail to titillate . |
| 23 | Whilst accepting that this is an oversimplification of a process that includes a sophisticated method of calculating relative costs ( ie the weighted factors ) , it nonetheless indicated how the further education process could be improved , assuming that Colleges could enhance their income level once the majority of constraints on local operations were removed . |
| 24 | Using data from diffraction studies of TMTSF salts , they observed how the unit-cell volume of the crystal varied with the average ‘ interstack ’ distance between selenium atoms . |
| 25 | In the literature there has been concern expressed how the dead victim may be blamed . |
| 26 | During the trial the court heard how the 21-year-old woman was tied up , handcuffed and subjected to sexual abuse . |
| 27 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 28 | He stood for a moment , framed in the great gateway , and Fenella saw how the early morning light touched his dark hair and brought out red glints in it and saw , as well , that his eyes were shining , as if he was already looking ahead to the dangers and the adventures . |
| 29 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 30 | In section 2.1 we saw how the Pauling scale of electronegativities of elements was based on bond enthalpies . |