Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How badly he 'd treated Mum , he told us . |
| 2 | And George Seferis saw also , when Eliot was inscribing a book , " how nervously he grasped the pen " . |
| 3 | It would be twenty years before he discovered how right he had been . |
| 4 | Maxim looked at the clutter of parts in front of him and realised how right he 'd been in saying soldiers hate to throw away guns , even cheap Spanish ones . |
| 5 | Of course nothing remotely approaches the indulgent , yet time and time again Pollini characterises the music with an infinite subtlety which makes other interpretations appear almost cosmetic in comparison : listen to how gently he coaxes ( never caresses ! ) the opening phrases of and you 'll hear what I mean . |
| 6 | Endill wondered why he was n't enormously fat and wobbly but no matter how much he ate , Mould stayed the same shape . |
| 7 | But no matter how much he twisted and turned , the Liverpool dynamo gave him no rest . |
| 8 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 9 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 10 | Raking the comb through cropped curls that gleamed like polished mahogany , Polly tried to stifle her doubts and the nagging feeling that somehow she should have known there would be strings attached to Clive 's offer no matter how much he protested otherwise . |
| 11 | Iron Josh also had his instinct and it told him that , no matter how much he had tried to hide the fact that he was worried , Bertha had guessed . |
| 12 | A 20-year-old friend , Sheena Heffing , had put her son in the seat of a shopping trolley and refused to let him out no matter how much he squirmed . |
| 13 | She had no evidence to back it up , but in her heart she knew that Luke would never deal with a man like Martin , no matter how much he stood to gain from it . |
| 14 | She still did n't understand what he meant by all that , no matter how much he explained . |
| 15 | Sometimes he finds it hard to understand what I want to say , but he does n't mind how long he waits while I repeat it , and he always understands in the end . |
| 16 | Asked once about how long he thought the movie industry could last , he snapped : ‘ I never make predictions , especially about the future ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I asked Rico , when he telephoned , how long he thought she 'd been dead . |
| 18 | Mr Helmsley did not say how long he planned to keep his buildings in mourning , but his wife is expected to be in jail for at least 19 months before she is eligible for parole . |
| 19 | When the Shah arrived , Morocco officials evidently did not know how long he planned to stay . |
| 20 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |
| 21 | Even so , I do n't know how he survived that fall ; God knows what he broke , how he suffered , how long he took to crawl there to the other slightly brighter patch of light ; how long he took to die . |
| 22 | Even so , I do n't know how he survived that fall ; God knows what he broke , how he suffered , how long he took to crawl there to the other slightly brighter patch of light ; how long he took to die . |
| 23 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 24 | He did not know how long he had been sleeping but woke up hungry and decided to sneak into the kitchens for a tin of soup . |
| 25 | She realized by his use of the word ‘ they ’ instead of ‘ we ’ that he was not a native of the place , and wondered how long he had lived there . |
| 26 | For how long he had dwelt there Allen was unable to find out . |
| 27 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
| 28 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 29 | His obvious hunger made her wonder how long he had been up and about . |
| 30 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |