Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a string of boyfriends and no matter how badly she treated them there were always others lined up and waiting . |
| 2 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 3 | But I suspect that if you confronted your past , you would be amazed at how little it moved you . |
| 4 | But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming . |
| 5 | He threw off the pau and stood there over her , naked , seeing how eagerly she watched him now . |
| 6 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
| 7 | Sometimes I wonder that she did n't collapse under the sheer weight of how much we needed her , of how unreasonably we all admired and needed her . |
| 8 | I also get stopped by strangers on the street who tell me how much they enjoyed it . |
| 9 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 10 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 11 | De Tocqueville 's notes reveal not only the conscious opposition to such a mode of religious power but also how deep the solidarity between clergy and people was , the degree to which the poor , half the catholic population at the time , looked to the clergy for material and spiritual leadership , guidance , and assistance , and how much they trusted them . |
| 12 | Gaveston knew how much they hated him . |
| 13 | Then she remembered Peter telling her how much his brother liked women — and how much they liked him . |
| 14 | They left her feeling completely enclosed in a warm glow of attention and to Moran 's repeated questions over the next days were able to say genuinely how much they liked her . |
| 15 | Honest to God , that 's how much they started me off on . |
| 16 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 17 | And Gemma had not the heart to tell either of them how much they wearied her . |
| 18 | And he would n't explain that remark , no matter how much she pestered him . |
| 19 | But no matter how much she tried she could not prevent the shift in perceptions towards her . |
| 20 | She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain . |
| 21 | I felt such a hypocrite in church , knowing that He knew about me , knowing that no matter how much I washed I was still unclean , unfit to stand in His house . |
| 22 | Helen stood by the gate for a few moments , thinking , deliberately thinking about Adrian , testing how much it hurt her . |
| 23 | He did n't know , of course , how much it hurt her . |
| 24 | She had n't realised how much it angered her until she had begun , and by the time she came to a halt , her voice had acquired all the sting of a whiplash . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's not how much it affected you , it 's the fact that you were affected at all , ’ he said , straightening himself up . |
| 26 | But did Finn care how much it upset her to see them so fierce with each other ? |
| 27 | Miranda could see by his grip on the newspaper , the thinness of his lips , and above all how he directed his words to her , not to his daughter , how much it cost him to refuse her anything . |
| 28 | Over a grand 's worth you 're looking at here , and you know how much it cost me ? |
| 29 | How long we had her ? |
| 30 | And how long we had 'im . |