Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellants were charged with conspiracy to commit a breach of s. 1 of the Act , whereby it is an offence to enter any prohibited place ‘ for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State ’ . |
| 2 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 3 | He must know how much she hated being told this , reminded about how she was the apple of their eye , and the centre of simple boastful conversation . |
| 4 | ‘ And I know all about you — how your father , while still a boy , was forced by his family into an unhappy marriage with an older woman , and how you were the result of that marriage . |
| 5 | And how we are the targeting comp how we are the company that specializes in certain industries because you 've got you you do industry by phone mobile phone area and medical supplies and you know your local as well . |
| 6 | How they were a strength for each other after our affairs ended . ’ |
| 7 | So I gave him half of mine , half of it , you know how it 's a tablet now ? |
| 8 | In conclusion , I hope you can see the enormous challenge fundholding is posing , and how it is an opportunity to make the health service responsive to our needs as general practitioners acting on behalf of our patients . |
| 9 | He had explained to her mother how it was an innovation for Hoggatt 's having a clerical officer on the desk instead of a junior police officer . |
| 10 | Of course he did not know how it was the piece in the Nouvel Observateur had come to be written . |
| 11 | All about how he was a bit of a shit , and you could n't get it out of your mind while you were reading The Waste Land . |
| 12 | Indeed , rumours about Ruthven were rife — how he was a warlock because he was left-handed and talked to his cat . |
| 13 | It was the same sensitive touch he brought to their lovemaking , and the knowledge only added to her store of love for him , for she saw how he was the sort of man who was all of a piece , mentally and physically , a complete human being , someone she could only admire , despite the hell he put her through . |
| 14 | They were starting to thump the floor now , and the chorus that had played low , while they gave out the stuff of how he was the son of Hasan b . |
| 15 | In the event one is hard pressed to see how hers is a theology , as opposed to simply a political agenda for the liberation of people . |
| 16 | Interested but not involved — except during the years when I was a member , and latterly chairman of the Crofters Commission . |
| 17 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember when I was a coach at Wimbledon — in the Southern League then — and Middlesbrough came down to Plough Lane for an FA Cup-tie . |
| 19 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 20 | I remember when I was a kid , you dare n't say ‘ boo ’ to a peeler . |
| 21 | Referring to his upbringing in the Protestant Shankill area , another said , ‘ I remember when I was a kid , if you seen a policeman you 'd run , nowadays kids are more likely to tell you to fuck off ’ ( FN 23/10/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 22 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 23 | It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’ |
| 24 | As they used to say when I was a kid , people keep to their station . |
| 25 | " I say , Lyn , did I ever tell you how I actually got into one of the old mines when I was a kid ? " |
| 26 | ‘ I guess I just saw too many of those sci-fi movies when I was a kid . |
| 27 | At least it 's better than the paraffin we used to have when I was a kid . ’ |
| 28 | A lot of old sailors you know er in them days , when I was a kid aye . |
| 29 | And they still had ration books when I was a kid . |
| 30 | I remember you from when I was a kid , back in the days when you do n't remember me . ’ |