Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’ |
| 2 | Aah said as 'ow 'e 's only a poor little thing . ’ |
| 3 | I 'opes as 'ow you 've got some pennies for me , so as I can get meself a bed for the night . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why , lass , Aah thought as 'ow you enjoyed t'market , ’ she said . |
| 5 | They have always been popular with the public and eagerly sought after whenever they appeared . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'll tell him after how it went . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They wan na be looked after when they 're sick an' 'ave proper education fer their kids . |
| 11 | ‘ Is it a proper jazz band with tommy talkers like we used to run after when we were kids ? ’ |
| 12 | I mean , there are n't actually that many out where I come from . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now that 's not every word , this is what happens when you start doing the apostrophe , that , there 'll then be a spate of whenever you see a word ending in s , ah , word ending in s , use an apostrophe , regardless of whether you should use one or not , now you are a lovely think about it . |
| 15 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 16 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 17 | Or more specifically , start considering how you learn things . |
| 18 | It is not meant as a criticism but as a frank report of how we think your child gets along at camp as an individual and as part of a group . |
| 19 | But somewhat surprisingly ( given that the representational theory of the mind is supposed to be a theory of thinking , not of how we handle inputs ) he concludes that a psychology of the central systems is beyond our reach : the more global a mental process is the less we are likely to understand about it . |
| 20 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 21 | Many artists , scientists and philosophers engaged the question of whether linear ( or any other ) perspective provides the true account of how we perceive . |
| 22 | Regular — and open — reviews of how we are meeting the challenge of want should be a feature of modern government . |
| 23 | Because as well as the band 's set , we 're interested in the larger scope of how we are affecting the audience , how what we 're doing affects the audience 's conception of what a gig should be , if you like . |
| 24 | We would not be taking time off work , making all kinds of out-of-the-usual arrangements , unless we thought it was important to go to the funeral as a mark of how we feel about the person who had died , and wanted to ‘ pay our respects ’ . |
| 25 | I rarely made a comment on what someone was wearing ; we would sit in a park or café or at home discussing image , beauty , fashion and advertising , and skirt around the more obvious , immediate issues of how we both looked , how we were dressed . |
| 26 | There remains the question of how we should view a bacterial species — for example , the Escherichia coli popular with geneticists . |
| 27 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 28 | The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment : it is a declaration of nationalist faith , a recommendation of how we ought to see the world , not how it is . |
| 29 | Is not the question more one of how we select and appoint committees in the first place ? |
| 30 | While it is important that we take stock of and combat the fraudulent ways in which we are being described by those who oppose us , we should not be unmindful or insensitive to what we are saying about ourselves , of how we are describing who-we-are . |