Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often surprising what information companies do have , but how little they actually use it , so a good researcher will try hard to find what is available . |
| 2 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 3 | ‘ Meeting her ’ , reported the interviewer to his male ( presumably ) compatriots ‘ shocked me into realizing how little we normally expect from women . ’ |
| 4 | This is fine so long as we recognize how little we genuinely know about education , and how cautious therefore must be the -claims that we are able to make . |
| 5 | Age Concern 's useful literature review ( Cloke , 1983 ) showed how little we really know . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think Kee knows how terribly she unintentionally thwarts me ? ’ |
| 7 | Although it is still not clear how much we actually raised , initial indications are for a figure in excess of £3,000 , which is superb . |
| 8 | Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year . |
| 9 | Nobody is sure how many people live in each region or how much they normally eat . |
| 10 | the relationship between the amount of television people claim to watch and how much they actually watch , |
| 11 | I do n't know how much they really enjoyed it , but judging by the expressions on their faces and the way they all went out talking about Dawn , I think it went down well . |
| 12 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 13 | The remarkable thing about political houses built on sand , or castles in the air , is how long they often take to collapse ; and this very time-lag becomes an argument in their favour and a supposed refutation of those who draw attention to the absence of foundations . |
| 14 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |
| 15 | John could not concentrate on anything for very long but we were unsure just how long he typically managed . |
| 16 | Although Traherne held the living of Credenhill until his death in 1674 , it is not clear for how long he actually acted as minister there . |
| 17 | May I please ask you to give a little time to thinking how best you personally can assist the Society to raise enough funds before the end of this year to complete our Development Plan for 1988 ? |
| 18 | It struck her then just how quickly he really was becoming a man . |
| 19 | And with Ariel a prisoner her young caveys seemed to forget how once they too had loved to hunt . |
| 20 | Now he 's gone , I think it 's time you admitted how false it always was . ’ |
| 21 | [ in a frenzy of remorse ] O , how heartily I now despise all my former pursuits and headstrong appetites . |
| 22 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 23 | How long those last back in the office , and how far they actually influence decision-making , is unquantifiable . |
| 24 | Polly let her breath out in a whoosh of relief , looking down to check how far she still had to go . |
| 25 | We must now ask whether that ideal is sound , and how far it actually supports conventionalism . |
| 26 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 27 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 28 | Five little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are four green speckled frog , frog , frog , four little speckled frogs , had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was , how now they now there are three green speckled frog , frog , frog , three little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they now there are two green speckled frog , frog , frog , two little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious , yum , yum , yum , they wo n't be made a fool when it was how now now there 's just one green speckled frog , frog , frog , sshh , one little speckled frog had all his speckles off he did look delicious yum , yum , yum , he wo n't be made a fool when it was how now they |
| 29 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 30 | It was queer , how well she still knew him . |