Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone who asked how I 'd done the lighting , I told them . ’ |
| 3 | Wanted to do an article on how I 'd built the company from nothing . |
| 4 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 5 | I told him about Frankland , and how I had seen the boy with the food . |
| 6 | This was not how I had imagined the conquering of my childhood dream peak , and I was muttering and tutting under my breath as I clambered up towards them . |
| 7 | They had heard how I had prevented the King from destroying all their ships . |
| 8 | When my master 's wife came into the room some time later , I showed her how I had killed the rat . |
| 9 | I never have properly recalled how I had spent the larger part of my time in Préfleur when Jean-Claude was away . |
| 10 | I do n't know how I managed to turn the corner without bumping into something ! |
| 11 | How I managed to pipe the intake seven-and-a-half miles to the Commando Camp at Achnacarry I shall never know . |
| 12 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
| 13 | But , of course , Tony did n't like the song , so he asked whether I 'd do it , and that 's how I came to do the record . ’ |
| 14 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I cast so many unknowns when I came to make the movie , ’ Dickerson reasons . |
| 16 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 17 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 18 | I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field . |
| 19 | I was 22 when I had to suffer the pressure , perhaps now at 27 I would cope much better . |
| 20 | Strange one again , but that 's when , when I tried to get the lightning . |
| 21 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 22 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
| 23 | However I did find the coverage of the police chasing a joyrider ( or a ‘ deathrider ’ as some people chose to call them ) very informative . |
| 24 | I then returned back to the er police station where I commenced to write the operational order in respect of the incident . |
| 25 | I was cowering in my usual corner in Boots ' chemist 's shop in Scarborough , where I had developed the habit of a weekly weigh-in to keep a morbid eye on my progressive emaciation . |
| 26 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 27 | Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign . |
| 28 | By then it was too late to get the room and I walked back to the spot where I had committed the robbery . |
| 29 | On the third day , I was marched before a prison officer , who perfunctorily asked me my name and address , and if I would confess to where I had concealed the body of Victor Frankenstein . |
| 30 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |