Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The rule of thumb is that , whenever you choose a next node , the one you choose has as large a value f(N) as possible . |
2 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
3 | I 'm sure you can imagine how I felt the next morning — I could n't move a muscle ! |
4 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
5 | Do you remember how awkward it felt , how stiff you were , how you ached the next day ? |
6 | Remember how we missed the last bus because I was kissing you — we did n't know where we were , or what we were doing , did we ? |
7 | Depending on how they feel the first time , they may carry on if they enjoy it or if it seems to block out other worries and problems . |
8 | Watch how he scored the second — and that 's 3 goals in 3 games . |
9 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
10 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |
11 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
12 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
13 | In theory , her looks depended on the services of many employees , my hairdresser , my last hairdresser , my doctor , my other doctor who I went to when I found the first one was n't doing me any good , but with or without their attentions , Laura would always be beautiful . |
14 | Yes , I see why I represented a last hope , ’ she said . |
15 | That 's why I yelled the second time . |
16 | It was one reason why I caught the first flight home . |
17 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
18 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
19 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
20 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
21 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
22 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
23 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
24 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
25 | I told her on , on a Friday when she gives the first . |
26 | THE Republic 's President , Mary Robinson , was the toast of a remote island community today when she opened the first licensed premises on Inishturk in Clew Bay . |
27 | ‘ I think I know what quality you were seeing when you engaged the last one , ’ Anna teased affectionately . |
28 | On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight . |
29 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
30 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |