Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And so whenever she imagined this scene , she knew that when it came to the visitor 's question she would capitulate and declare against her wishes , against her desire : ‘ Yes .
2 Yet whenever she considered this possibility , properly thought it through , she knew that it was not even a starter .
3 I burst out laughing because all the costermongers in the Whitechapel Road always did whenever they heard that word , although I admit that at the time I did n't have a clue what a virgin was .
4 Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information .
5 That 's how I got that corduroy suit .
6 D' ya remember how I got that box where you could lay them in separately ?
7 Sometimes I get like I ca n't remember how I got some place .
8 I was going to have to manage him , and whether I was able to do that successfully depended very much on how I managed this moment .
9 That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones .
10 I can still feel how I felt that day , nearly fifty years ago .
11 I came to the decision by myself and how I drove that Cabinet to take the plunge I shall never know !
12 Do n't you remember how I stilled that storm ?
13 Taking all this into account , it is possible to explain how I interpreted this utterance to function as a request for help in freeing the cat — as having a pragmatic meaning roughly paraphrasable as
14 And in a way that 's how I approached this album , it 's how I will approach Alfie when we come you know it 's it 's a wonderful passion .
15 That 's how she got that bruise .
16 She ca n't remember how she spent that day but has a vague memory of being like a wild animal howling through the house , tears pouring down her face , drinking brandy , tearing at her clothes , pulling his clothes out of the wardrobe and holding them close to her , burying her face in them , trying to recover the smell of him .
17 As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record .
18 How she hated that mockery .
19 How she hated this man !
20 ( How she loved that word for the theatre … )
21 SEXY singer Paula Abdul has told how she lost two stone before marrying actor Emilio Estevez … by joining a help group for compulsive overeaters .
22 How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her .
23 How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life .
24 Right , could you manage to remember how you got that skill , or that knowledge , okay .
25 dir : I 'm still puzzled about how you got this idea .
26 I shall take your Christmas pudding with me , and the box of dates too , and I shall tell them all how you came this morning with presents and decorations and then found the mistletoe for me !
27 Can you remember how you chose that subject ?
28 The Aldershot method erm because it showing you how you broke that subject down allows you to erm introduce it expand on it and summarise at the end .
29 ‘ Did you think I had forgotten how you smuggled that message out of Tracy , forcing me to lose almost everything ?
30 We were very careful about how we entered this market .
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