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 .
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