Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , what 's Jeff on about when we 'll keep up with him ? |
| 2 | ‘ After I split up with Godfrey they went on and on about how I should find someone else . |
| 3 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 4 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 5 | When we got the vans , Ernie was with us then and he always used to sharpen her knife up so as he 'd give her a fresh one lunchtime to go , he 'd , she 'd start off up , down from where you 'd come from this morning , then she 'd go on to Wicken and do that on a Tuesday , Tuesday round . |
| 6 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
| 7 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 8 | His father had warned him of what might happen , but not about how he would feel . |
| 9 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 10 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 11 | At first sight this was like English countryside , but close to where you could see the baked cracked topsoil , the dead convoluted trees , bleached stones like animal skulls and huge pear cactus in bright yellow flower , close to the land was hard , dry and pitiless . |
| 12 | MORTGAGE lenders were divided yesterday on how they would respond to the base rate hike , but a 1.25 per cent increase in ordinary mortgage rates to 14.75 per cent seemed the most common reaction , probably from 1 November , writes Patrick Hosking . |
| 13 | But I was impressed , specially by how he could shape shots , and I said , ‘ This is the guy for me . ’ |
| 14 | They have not thought carefully through how we should deal with the important issue of funding and local authorities . |
| 15 | As we confront a world where resources are clearly limited — sometimes declining — and needs ever expanding , there is an imperative to think very carefully about how we might wish to allocate resources . |
| 16 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 17 | Er , I must n't be guilty of commercials but in the last council meeting of the night , again the subject came up of how we could welcome people coming to mass and this is nothing to do with a request council at all and er we ended up , and I think it 's fair to say what we decided er here , that people would individually they did n't know approach them . |
| 18 | Diana needed advice urgently — not just on drafting a suitable reply to Prince Philip but also on how she should conduct negotiations with the Royal Family in the coming months . |
| 19 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 20 | He stood under the street-light , looking back from where he 'd come . |
| 21 | Well of course there 's been the erm joining of the two Leagues back to where they should have been , you know this silly split that was erm arose over the last couple of years has been put to bed now and sorted out . |
| 22 | ‘ We have received a lot of information from this contract but we are looking now at how we can make the best input possible . |
| 23 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
| 24 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 25 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 26 | Thus a ladder filter comprising several sections and terminated in resistance tends to correct termination of sections rapidly along the ladder and responds overall quite closely to how it would respond if it were possible to correctly terminate the end section . |
| 27 | Write briefly on how you would explain some of the tasks that have to be carried out : |