Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's how I was heading north-west towards Highbury and Lucy instead of north and east to Zaria . |
| 2 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 3 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 4 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 5 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 6 | The Australians produced an impressive array of statistics to explain why the Pearl was underperforming and how it was losing market share . |
| 7 | At the same time Linkworth mentioned to everyone how he was making money from his little shop . |
| 8 | I was about thirty-four when I was made personnel director of the Nobel Division . |
| 9 | That 's right , that 's right , I , I tend to keep my watch to the minute if I possibly can , but that 's bad habit or really habit from the days when I was catching trains every day , and I 'd never caught a train with any time to spare , erm |
| 10 | I did n't realize at the time when I was getting headaches , migraines . |
| 11 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 12 | I , I , I 'm , I am absolutely mortified , because , I have to say I think that erm , I got in the car , I do n't have very far to drive from the N E C , erm , twenty minutes and I 'm home , but I go on the M 1 motorway and er , and I never gave it very much thought , and on Monday when I was told Dave , what had happened , erm , there but for the grace of God . |
| 13 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 14 | I had a fellow come rushing out to me , point duty outside Legs o' Man pub one night , when I was directing traffic , puts a bottle of beer down by the side of me . |
| 15 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |
| 16 | I did n't say where I was going Joanne . |
| 17 | A quarter of a mile , and plenty of stops later , I was hauled out of the water by my dripping father , who reminded me we had to go to Kirton , where I was playing football . |
| 18 | One morning we woke up in Tangier , where I was visiting Paul Bowles — a famous homosexual writer — and she was suffocating . |
| 19 | ‘ It was explained to me that I had a mild form which was affecting the part of the brain that triggers migraine , which is why I was having sickness attacks and blinding headaches behind the eyes . ’ |
| 20 | That 's why she was called Catherine the Great |
| 21 | I still did n't know why she was called Beeby . |
| 22 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 23 | However many feathers must have been ruffled in the process Eva survived and received a further vote of confidence iii her leadership skills when she was appointed principal of Usher Institute , a girls ' school with a growing reputation , south of Howard in Matabeleland . |
| 24 | Section 5 also assisted Lady Falkender when she was discussing security at Buckingham Palace and the proclivities of Commander Trestrail , the Queen 's personal bodyguard , at the time of Michael Fagan 's entry into the Queen 's bedroom in 1982 . |
| 25 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 26 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 27 | Afterwards , when she was preparing dinner , he slipped into his study to telephone Eloise . |
| 28 | When you retire , the DHSS looks at the gaps in your record for full tax years when you were receiving child benefit or a benefit for caring for an invalid . |
| 29 | He would start the evening in his quiet , sometimes moody , Kansas drawl and would end up in ranting fashion , telling them all that things would be different when he and the rest of ‘ new ’ Hollywood were running things , and they would all be clapped in irons , which was hardly the brightest way to inspire confidence at a time when you were seeking film money . |
| 30 | ‘ Remember when you were delivering boots for me and that boy took them from you , how did you feel then , Will ? ’ |