Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Poor Charlie never could understand 'ow it come ter 'appen , ? |
| 2 | Dot thought how it had probably felt like this , jolting yet stately . |
| 3 | Whilst much had changed , particularly since John Shaw 's retirement , the visit clearly brought back poignant memories of how it had all begun . |
| 4 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 5 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 6 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |
| 7 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 8 | This is not how it has always felt . |
| 9 | ( Interesting how it has now become problematic for another reason . ) |
| 10 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 11 | A snorting and savage beast , it promptly ate all Mother Leeds other children and plunged into the New Jersey forest , from whence it emerged regularly to tear clothes hanging out to dry , and trample vegetable gardens . |
| 12 | Not since she had walked down her path on that evening when it had all begun had she felt such a sure and unmistakeable feeling of threat and menace . |
| 13 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 14 | Well , that was when it had all come to a head . |
| 15 | IBM is expected to make its long anticipated move into massively parallel computing this Tuesday when it launches parallel processing machines running from eight up to 64 PowerParallel RISC/6000 processors . |
| 16 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 17 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 18 | You know where it says now try this , I 'd like you to do that exercise , putting in all the punctuation . |
| 19 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |
| 20 | Nothing else , except a thick dead branch lying tossed under the bushes , and just aside from it , the bleached shape in the grass where it had formerly lain . |
| 21 | When the ball finally reached him , the normally placid boy bared his teeth and , whirling the bat round his head , whacked the offending object back up to where it had just come from . |
| 22 | One of the four mock-doric pillars had fallen and now lay , like the broken leg of a stone giant , half-buried in the window frame behind where it had previously stood . |
| 23 | I made no pilgrimage to Valladolid , where it had all begun . |
| 24 | The Americans came ‘ over there ’ for the last act and the curtain came down in Belgium where it had all begun four horrific years before . |
| 25 | In at least one such area where it did eventually intrude , the original ‘ rotten apple ’ is believed to have been a government agent . |
| 26 | This is n form of working memory , as the cue is meaningful only if the animal remembers where it has just come from . |
| 27 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 28 | That was why it had all happened . |
| 29 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 30 | The reason why it becomes more pronounced in some patients remains unanswered . |