Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several years ago I wrote some pieces about the Psion Organiser , telling how I had devoted many months to trying to learn how to use this tiny alpha-numeric keyboard . |
| 2 | How I managed to do that I do not know . |
| 3 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 4 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 5 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 6 | Three years ago , when I started to make some real money as opposed to all that other stuff I 'd been making , my father hit bad trouble on the tables and the track and he … |
| 7 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 8 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 9 | I had remembered where I had heard that name before . |
| 10 | I was a serving naval officer , whose experience had been almost entirely in small ships and submarines where I had learnt some of the problems of leadership of compact teams , for whom the aim was painfully apparent : sink , or be sunk . |
| 11 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 12 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 15 | That 's why I began to see less of him . |
| 16 | And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing . |
| 17 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 18 | In order to make the radio series , over 30 interviews were recorded exclusively , although only 5% could be used in the finished production , which is why I decided to produce this book , which will prove to be an excellent documentation on the life of David Bowie — an insight into this enigma of the rock world — told by those who really know . |
| 19 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 20 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |