Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 2 | ‘ Temporary ’ regulations of August 1881 — ultimately extended until the fall of the Empire — empowered the government to declare virtual martial law wherever and whenever it chose to do so . |
| 3 | So , it 's vital to zap stress fast whenever it threatens to overwhelm you . |
| 4 | However , it seemed to flounder whenever it tried to pin multimedia down . |
| 5 | Vacuum at least once a week and shampoo whenever it starts to look grubby — probably once or twice a year . |
| 6 | Fifth , the initiative ignores reality by failing to explain how it plans to track Windows — he thinks that Microsoft will doubtless make Windows a moving target by adding value — doing things such as bundling in Access , its new database management system . |
| 7 | How it deserved to go to Paradise . ’ |
| 8 | I keep remembering how it felt to hold you in my arms — like this , ’ he murmured as he slid his arms round her . |
| 9 | When he was forced to leave Arabia his sense of loss was enormous : ‘ As the plane … swung out to sea , I knew how it felt to go into exile . ’ |
| 10 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 11 | Ms Stephens was asked by reporters how it felt to climb to the top of the world . |
| 12 | ‘ How it felt to kiss you … ’ |
| 13 | Repeat the viewing process after walking across the rug a few times , as this will show how it responds to use . |
| 14 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 15 | How it managed to survive in our sophisticated century remains one of the modern wonders of the world . |
| 16 | Last month I wrote about how to thread the colour changer and how it functions to change yarn . |
| 17 | I am intrigued if it does n't like wind rock , how it manages to survive on the drove roads over the downs that where Gerard . |
| 18 | Since communism as well as ‘ socialism ’ has been forever assigned to history 's dustbin , there appears no pressing need for society to come to terms with just what that system was or how it continues to manifest itself . |
| 19 | We 've learnt about its physiology and how it changes to keep pace with the larva 's changing eating habits . |
| 20 | His report gives an insight into how it feels to take part . |
| 21 | From the moment you sit back in the Orion 's roomy interior , you 'll know how it feels to drive a classic car . |
| 22 | Oh , I suppose you 've been in love , probably several times , so you know how it feels to hold someone , and perhaps what I 'm feeling is what anybody feels when their life is startled and transformed . |
| 23 | He knows how it feels to lose a father at a tender age . |
| 24 | He has vivid memories of how it feels to lose your job . |
| 25 | ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 26 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 27 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 28 | Hence it is important for the legislation to spell out the situations and conduct that will be presumed to be anticompetitive , and to provide for the competition policy institution to publish guidelines as to how it proposes to apply the legislation . |
| 29 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 30 | I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents into the future ? |