Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] [pron] was [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |
| 2 | He could see how hopeless it was for her . |
| 3 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 5 | No one would know how hard it was for her to act the bride she would never be . |
| 6 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 7 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 8 | But I 'll never forget how good she was to me all through the war , took so much off my hands when I just could n't cope . |
| 9 | She 'd been amazed to see Nelson working for her — and even more amazed to see how good he was at it , laughing and chatting with the customers , apparently having the time of his life . |
| 10 | She was only sorry that she had demonstrated exactly how vulnerable she was to him . |
| 11 | Then you will also know how stupid it was of you to attempt to deceive us . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how impressed I was by them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ D' you remember how great she was to us when we were kids ? |
| 14 | As they were not leaving the church immediately I rushed home and quickly wrote a note to ‘ la Signora Enrica ’ telling Eric all the latest news and telling him also how lonely I was without him . |
| 15 | He smiled slowly , then drawled , ‘ You ca n't imagine how jealous I was of him . |
| 16 | The boyish enthusiasm and glee with which John Major and his Cabinet greeted the result showed just how important it was to them . |
| 17 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 18 | She knew how important it was for him to be in a good army , and if the war had ended in Rhodesia , then perhaps another might start in one of France 's old colonies so that the Legion could get involved . |
| 19 | He leaned forward , smiling , playing the perfect host , knowing how important it was for him to win these young men over . |
| 20 | Our guide Sam gave us very clear instructions — he did n't need to emphasise how important it was for us to do exactly as he said . |
| 21 | During the summer , the Prime Minister kept saying how essential it was for him to be present at Maastricht in December in order to make decisions , but the word from Downing street now is that the Prime Minister 's greatest ambition at Maastricht is to fend off making any decisions . |
| 22 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 23 | She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him . |
| 24 | I had n't realised how small she was without them . |
| 25 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 26 | In fact , Galileo 's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) shows how difficult it was for him to pursue such an argument , even had he wished . |
| 27 | He avoided her glance , and she saw how difficult it was for him to admit to weakness . |
| 28 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 29 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 30 | The New York Herald headlined ‘ These Girl 's Do n't Drink , Smoke or Flirt ’ and printed an article , attributed to Mary , in which she explained how difficult it was for her to maintain discipline in a society where young girls were surrounded on every side by such bad examples of free and easy ways in all walks of life . |