Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 whenever you get three times three .
2 Whenever we take one step forward , we take five steps back , ’ said an ambassador to the Arab League .
3 Whenever we take one step forward , we take five steps back , ’ said another .
4 Whenever we take one step forward , we take five steps back , ’ said another .
5 Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle .
6 or how I liked two sugars in my tea ,
7 Last night Nicola Simms , 21 , from Nutton , Stoke-on-Trent , told how she endured five weeks under the regime .
8 At the James Bulger trial , a woman has told the court how she confronted two boys and the frightened toddler when she saw him with injuries , but was told he 'd fallen and was being taken home .
9 SEXY singer Paula Abdul has told how she lost two stone before marrying actor Emilio Estevez … by joining a help group for compulsive overeaters .
10 And she said you 'll never guess Angie how we had two fellas tried to latch on to us .
11 The diagram shows an over-view of the processes involved and how they reference three types of information : the hyper-medium itself , the names of the trails made by each user held in path and a complete history held in pathitem of each path comprising an initial content-based search followed by a series of navigational commands .
12 His mother Halima , 30 , tells how they walked 60 miles to reach the town .
13 Or if you 're comparing people with themselves as it were , that is looking for differences between how they answer one question and how they answer another question , then sort of , you know , kind of twenty or more people and you 've got a reasonable chance of showing up some , some P less than point O fives .
14 This was how it looked two years ago — now there 's more height in the garden , but there 's still a long way to go .
15 He told how he saw 2 cars going up the road and had a strong feeling there would be an accident .
16 ‘ Tell me how he drove four horses with coach to London . ’
17 No I just , I just could n't work out how he averaged five marks .
18 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 .
19 I 've gone through phases when I had seven effects pedals in front of me and then I 've concentrated on the pedals rather than my playing , and that 's wrong . ’
20 And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality .
21 This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) .
22 The only time I 've flown was when I paid five bob for a trip in Alan Cobham 's flying circus . ’
23 There was one time when I moved 14 times in seven months — that really disrupts your education .
24 I went off to America to live in New York where I knew one person .
25 I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life .
26 Tyrer said : ‘ I played rugby league until I was 17 years old and even played for Wigan Under-11s at Wembley , where I kicked six goals .
27 I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait .
28 My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years .
29 ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer .
30 I 'm , I 'm , if there any question over it , the reason why I said ten days I 'm already sitting in London for , until the end of next week and therefore if there were any question , it 's obvious that it came before me , and that
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