Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [Wh adv] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fired again , calm and yet so full of fear , so full of fear I forget how often I fired . |
| 2 | I consider how successfully I have melted into the background recently . |
| 3 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 4 | I know how badly I behaved that night ; but I was wild with jealousy . |
| 5 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 6 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 7 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 8 | I know how much my godmother was worth . |
| 9 | Vale boss John Rudge said : ‘ We had a bit of luck when that shot from Regis stuck in the mud but I 'm overjoyed for our fans because I know how much it means to beat Stoke . ’ |
| 10 | Because I know how much it hurts you not to have children . ’ |
| 11 | I remember how strangely she looked at me then . |
| 12 | I understand how deeply you 've been hurt , must still be hurting , but … ’ |
| 13 | They make rotten toilet paper , and I do n't know what else to do with them , and , oh Nick ’ — she suddenly sat heavily beside me on the bed — ‘ you 're a good man and sometimes I think how nice it would be to have a good man in my life again . ’ |
| 14 | When I think how long we 've been friends … |
| 15 | of bed , I think how far I 've come . |
| 16 | I wonder how well we were doing against our own plan ? |
| 17 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 18 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 19 | ‘ I wonder how long they 'll do it for ? ’ |
| 20 | I wonder how long we 'll have this one . |
| 21 | When I reach out to the big mug of coffee on the table , it is cold , and I wonder how long I 've been asleep . |
| 22 | I wonder how long he will be . |
| 23 | I wonder how long he would last in the emasculated Audit Commission about which the Labour party has talked . |
| 24 | Now that some insurance companies are acknowledging the competence of some women drivers by reducing the premium they have to pay , I wonder how long it will be before car salesmen acknowledge the intelligence of women drivers ? |
| 25 | ‘ Yes it is , my love , but I wonder how long it 'll last ? |
| 26 | I wonder how long it will be before we take that train again ? |
| 27 | You said when we bought those bloody birds last Christmas , ‘ I wonder how long it 'll be before we 're yanking all this apart again and halving the furniture and carving up the doves . ’ |
| 28 | I wonder how long it will be before Australian graduates are required to take a test of English ? |
| 29 | I wonder how long it takes to burnt alive in a blazing Tornado ? |
| 30 | I wonder how long it will be before she gets tired of working there ? ’ |