Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 2 | It 's funny how he manages to keep awake ! |
| 3 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 4 | I thought it funny how I kept seeing dead cows but no live ones . |
| 5 | Users often do not notice that they have miskeyed a word , and many systems do not make it clear why they have failed to find anything . |
| 6 | I 've argued that for twenty years , now suddenly overnight it 's become unfashionable and let's make it clear why it 's become unfashionable . |
| 7 | how funny , clever how it 's done is n't it ? |
| 8 | When you think about it , it 's amazing how they do learn what the different aids mean . |
| 9 | It 's amazing how we 've united the village and I feel good to be a part of this village |
| 10 | Amazing how I seem to have forgotten all this . |
| 11 | I think they 're quite abrupt and rude whenever I 've phoned them up . |
| 12 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 13 | ‘ It is incredible how she has fitted in , ’ Mike says . |
| 14 | Your questions and general approach should draw out of each subordinate how they intend to proceed , giving guidance and information only where this is essential . |
| 15 | Even so , it is not at all obvious how he relocates writing in relation to the history to which it had until then been opposed . |
| 16 | Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished . |
| 17 | Er , it 's fairly obvious why you want to bake a quiche or a a flan , it 's fairly obvious , is it , why you want to play the clarinet ? |
| 18 | It is curious how he manages to make John Major sound about as animated and self-willed as a sack of potatoes.Ask him whether the PM takes his advice , and you get a similar impression . |
| 19 | She was n't sure how she had expected him to react to her announcement — gratitude or admiration might have been a bit much to hope for , she acknowledged wryly , but even a faint hint of relief would have been something . |
| 20 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 21 | She was n't even sure how it had found its way into the suitcase she packed for Wickrithe . |
| 22 | The trouble was that she was n't quite sure how it did work . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sure how he has got away with it . |
| 24 | Int that stupid how they 've put that there ! |
| 25 | What this meal means in real terms is a member does n't necessarily know for sure why they have lost . |
| 26 | Converting composite video into separate signals is relatively easy but I 'm not sure why you want to do it . |
| 27 | He could n't go back , he could n't go on , and yet he was n't entirely sure why he 'd stopped . |
| 28 | And he was never quite sure why he had married her at all . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm not quite sure why he 's got one apart from , unless Marcus just decided to send one to him , but he 's sent it to home , so I 'm not quite sure what Marcus is mailing |
| 30 | She was still not sure why she had made this arrangement . |