Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] have [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ May I ask , ’ he said , ‘ how you have done so well , since you and I met on those lonely marshes ? ’
2 It was almost too much to take in , how it had happened so quickly , so unexpectedly .
3 At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often .
4 Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning .
5 ‘ That is why I have come so far north on the ice . ’
6 I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long .
7 The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience .
8 It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long .
9 She had been tired after her early shift , which had necessitated getting up at six ; perhaps that was why she had slipped so easily into that state of contented , almost hypnotic languor .
10 She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions .
11 So let us take stock of where we have reached so far in our analysis of the Lucas business cycle model .
12 Ca n't think why we 've stuck so long with people who knew something about the job . ’
13 Why we have gone so long using our branch network as though it were doing the information job .
14 Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly .
15 That was why they had seemed so dreamily bright before .
16 And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’
17 Asked why it had taken so long for Doris to get back in touch with this world , Mr Lacey explained that it was probably the exhaustion caused by her illness , the brain operation and unsuccessful medical treatment .
18 If so , it could explain why he had waited so long for her , and why , now they had met again , he was handling their relationship so very carefully .
19 Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died .
20 Becker , who expects to encounter the 25-year-old Swede in the Davis Cup final here in December , can not understand why he has drifted so long .
21 I 'd like to know exactly why he 's gone so completely off his head .
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