Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'opes as 'ow you 've got some pennies for me , so as I can get meself a bed for the night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’ |
| 3 | They knows as 'ow Aah can see 'em , if they stops . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why , lass , Aah thought as 'ow you enjoyed t'market , ’ she said . |
| 5 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 6 | Aah said as 'ow 'e 's only a poor little thing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Aah 'm not so sure , ’ he replied , ‘ but Aah reckons as 'ow there must be . |
| 8 | ‘ We thinks as 'ow Gareth Davis is drownded , sir , ’ he stated . |
| 9 | ‘ Aah 've said as 'ow oor George 's wife 's time 's nearly 'ere and Aah may be needed at t'confinement . |
| 10 | Eyeing George 's face and noticing the beads of perspiration on his top lip he added , ‘ Aah expects as 'ow thoo 'd like ti go back down home wi' thi mother . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Doctor ’ , as the old man referred to him on her subsequent visits alone , ‘ the Doctor said as 'ow ‘ e were all for veg , like Mr Chadwick . ’ |
| 12 | They have always been popular with the public and eagerly sought after whenever they appeared . |
| 13 | I was terrified , slipping out of control , beginning to black out whenever I tried to use my hands , the frenzied white maelstrom subsiding into a quietly pulsating grey . |
| 14 | Eventually — after how long ? — the pains passed , and she was able to stand up . |
| 15 | The main problem was to determine after how many synodic revolutions , or reappearances of Venus as ‘ the morning star ’ , this phenomenon would recur on 1 Ahau . |
| 16 | He died in 1968 after how many years as an MP ( five years either side allowed ) ? |
| 17 | I 'll tell him after how it went . ’ |
| 18 | Given the fact that the temporal relation between means and end is clearly one of before to after , and the fact that when used with an infinitive how denotes the means and the infinitive the end , our hypothesis leads us to predict that to should be found after how . |
| 19 | However , the bare infinitive is also found after how , and although this construction is far less frequent than the one with to , it can not be dismissed as nonce usage since fifteen cases have come to light thus far . |
| 20 | Infinitival usage after how and why thus confirms our analysis of the way the modals are put into relation with the infinitive . |
| 21 | So even the employed would have a need , but it might not be so urgent , but it might not be so urgent as the self-employed guy , whose gon na need money after how long ? |
| 22 | Cheeks smeared by tears and mascara , she was helping him to stand and all he could think was How can she still have mascara after where she 's been ? |
| 23 | Do n't ferget now , we got ta 'ave the gates ready fer when Tony brings the lorry up at six sharp . ’ |
| 24 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 25 | ‘ Is it a proper jazz band with tommy talkers like we used to run after when we were kids ? ’ |
| 26 | Agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night : ‘ People are often despairing — especially in the cases of offspring whose ageing parents fear they will not be properly looked after when they have gone . |
| 27 | They wan na be looked after when they 're sick an' 'ave proper education fer their kids . |
| 28 | I mean , there are n't actually that many out where I come from . ’ |
| 29 | Most of the panels devoted to money were on the order of how-to sessions . |
| 30 | It 's nothing to do with this job , I just like to drive past whenever I can because sooner or later I 'll catch him at it . |