Example sentences of "and [vb past] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were more positive and planned how they might use the waterways to improve their way of life . |
| 2 | Jonathon made ships downstairs while Uncle Philip constructed his swan and planned how it should be strung . |
| 3 | They complained and asked why they were being treated differently from other couples . |
| 4 | So then Sir Bruce got hopping mad because nobody would tell him who they were talking about , and asked why they were so certain you were involved , and Six — it was that luminous dong Guy Husband and some new pin-up boy who runs the East German section-said they had their reasons and George could explain more . |
| 5 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 6 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 7 | Mr Sells said he had corresponded with Mr Bewick and asked why he had not joined the BTS and become involved in debates on transplants . |
| 8 | You can ask for the visits to be extended , but before you get that you 're taken to the governor and asked why you want it longer and who is coming to visit you . |
| 9 | Hugh Ritchie , the Departmental Officer one rank above Mr S — , a kind and gentlemanly character with whom I always had rapport , sent for me and asked why I wanted to leave . |
| 10 | ‘ They rang and asked why I was n't claiming income support , ’ he said . |
| 11 | David rushed out of the house and asked where we were going . |
| 12 | I was very taken aback , as she had not been old , and asked where she might be buried . |
| 13 | office in Rome , and asked where she was , where they 'd shipped her . |
| 14 | Dame Martha had opened the window and asked where she was going . |
| 15 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 16 | WHILE Jack Nicholson waited outside , Michael Douglas popped into the Seiko hospitality tent at the Barcelona Olympics and asked where he could get one of their watches . |
| 17 | He seized on it and asked when he could move in . |
| 18 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 19 | Ronnie saw 49-year-old Mick in Los Angeles and asked how he was coping with the separation . |
| 20 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 21 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 22 | On a casual visit to Costa Rica he blurted out the code name of the secret airstrip , Point West , and asked how it was doing . |
| 23 | But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended . |
| 24 | He sighed after a while and asked how I was feeling . |
| 25 | But she went everywhere else , and wherever she went in house or gardens , the grown-ups smiled and said , ‘ Good day ! ’ , and asked how she was . |
| 26 | The people in shops sent their regards to her aunt through Melanie and asked how she was keeping , as they had asked after Melanie 's mother and also after Mrs Rundle when Melanie had gone shopping in the village . |
| 27 | As for Kitty , she just sulked and asked how she was expected to survive without him . |
| 28 | HOWARD WILKINSON savoured the prospect yesterday of a history-making European night for Leeds and revealed why he believes they can conquer the odds . |
| 29 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 30 | The critic Richard Buckle accompanied them and described how they sat in the stalls of the empty theatre afterwards while Balanchine told them ‘ what he liked and did not like about it and how it could be improved ’ . |