Example sentences of "and [Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until they were within , the door closed after them , and the silence of the thick walls like a seal against the world , did she tell him what manner of guest she had invited to his dwelling , and how soon he was to have his wish . |
| 2 | Alexei thought about asking what latest scandal Jehan had heard , and how widely it was being spread abroad . |
| 3 | I put my receiver down , hearing only silence on the line , and wondered what she looked like , and how deeply she was ill . |
| 4 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 5 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 6 | When Charles II reintroduced legal mirth and jollity to the kingdom in 1660 , the old church was refurbished again , and when I visited it recently I was fascinated by the character of the place and how beautifully it was maintained . |