Example sentences of "i [vb past] [Wh adv] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked how long she had ? |
| 2 | It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting . |
| 3 | ’ I stopped speaking as I noticed how strangely he was staring at me . |
| 4 | I noticed how well you did yesterday . ’ |
| 5 | However , the more I thought about it , the more I imagined how nice it would be to have a really fabulous holiday in Andalucía . |
| 6 | ‘ When Orrin told us that you were missing , ’ he said , ‘ I knew how much we both love you . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's why I cried a bit when I scored , because I knew how much it meant to them . |
| 8 | I told you , I saw how much your visit did for her . |
| 9 | I thought how nice it would be to just stroll across the road and look at the river , and it appears to be quite simple until you get there and meet I do n't know how many lanes of traffic . |
| 10 | Following the usual exchanges I enquired how long they 'd been there . |
| 11 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 12 | I wondered how easy it would be to hang yourself with your shoelaces . |
| 13 | I wondered how long one could live without food or water ? |
| 14 | I wondered how long he 'd take to get used to it , to become , in other words , corrupt . |
| 15 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |
| 16 | I wondered how long I would survive , with no food or drink in the middle of the ocean . |
| 17 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before you young buggers came sniffing around , ’ he said , with a belly laugh , and looked at Yanto . |
| 18 | I wondered how long it would be before I saw England again . |
| 19 | I wondered how long it would be before I was doing the things portrayed in the photos . |
| 20 | I wondered how long it would be before I stopped loving him . |
| 21 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before the inquisition started up again . |
| 22 | ‘ No telephone calls accepted for residents — ’ I wondered how long it had taken him to break the habit of saying ‘ inmates ’ — ‘ during luncheon . ’ |
| 23 | I wondered how long it would take him , and whether Diggs would now have to go shouting through the town , warning that the mad boy who set fire to dogs was on the loose again ; lock up your hounds ! |