Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the following days , however , I came to learn not to be surprised by such remarks from my employer , and would smile in the correct manner whenever I detected the bantering tone in his voice . |
| 2 | At any rate , whenever I abandoned the usual literary-cum-public-affairs talk , I would observe him , as in this instance , perceptibly to relax . |
| 3 | I had the easy choice of remaining silent , or the more difficult one of addressing the problem at some length in various publications ; which is how I resolved the practical difficulties . |
| 4 | I do n't know how I got the following impression from Lili . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you can imagine how I felt the next morning — I could n't move a muscle ! |
| 7 | This is how I achieved the elaborate sky in Figure 3 , using the dust of black No. 199 , cold grey 111 , No. 232 , blue violet , No. 137 , and phthalo blue dark , No. 152 . |
| 8 | It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’ |
| 9 | He wants to know how I discovered the Old Rectory . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 11 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 12 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 13 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 14 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 15 | In 1987 when I attended the Intermediate Command Course at the Police Staff College with some thirty-five other superintendents from around Britain , I found that my Ph.D . |
| 16 | In theory , her looks depended on the services of many employees , my hairdresser , my last hairdresser , my doctor , my other doctor who I went to when I found the first one was n't doing me any good , but with or without their attentions , Laura would always be beautiful . |
| 17 | That was when I visited the Soviet Union in 1984 . |
| 18 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
| 19 | ‘ Forty marked the moment when I turned the magnifying side of my make-up mirror to the wall ’ |
| 20 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 21 | However I spent the following summer at the University of California , Santa Barbara . |
| 22 | ‘ — and then I belonged to the Pasha of Re'durat and played a prominent part in the battle of the Great Nef , which is where I received the slight nick you may have noticed some two-thirds of the way up my blade , ’ Kring was saying from its temporary home in a tussock . |
| 23 | That 's where I got the other one of that . |
| 24 | Then I went to Chartres , where I found the unequal spires of the Cathedral strangely homely and appealing after the stately symmetry of Notre Dame . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's why I reached the same conclusion . |
| 26 | That 's why I yelled the second time . |
| 27 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 28 | so this is why I raised the very conversation about it |
| 29 | You may be wondering why I called the various machines by masculine names . |
| 30 | The plane 's path goes behind the big trees — now you can see why I needed the white areas of the trees actor to be transparent , so you can see through them . |