Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an embarrassed recollection of having burst into tears , of demanding to know how long the affair with Henrietta had been going on . |
| 2 | Further , and although this will not be our major preoccupation , " finding out " new theories , new perspectives and new approaches , looking to see how well they work and what problems they can deal with , is as much part of research as " finding out " new facts . |
| 3 | He seemed intent now on pushing to see how far he could go and she appeared willing to give way in everything in order to pacify . |
| 4 | He batted it away impatiently , not even pausing to consider how quickly he 'd adjusted to Yukio 's death . |
| 5 | The current contracts run out in 10 days and the generators are refusing to say how much they will buy in future . |
| 6 | But its greater significance is as a bench mark serving to show how far the Labour Party , influenced by experience in government and by the pressure of opinion in a political democracy , had revised its prospectus . |
| 7 | It was so successful that she was beaten by the authorities for daring to walk where only the rich were permitted to stroll . |
| 8 | He offered her a bleak look , ‘ You 're full of righteous indignation at the thought that I was cynically testing to see how far you 'd go — but you offer no apology for your own behaviour . |
| 9 | THOUSANDS of people who use Edinburgh 's 500 city centre pubs were today waiting to discover how late the bars can remain open . |
| 10 | Its almost immediate closure was announced and then retracted last autumn , and its 600 or so employees are now waiting to hear how long the reprieve will last . |
| 11 | In attempting to understand why yet another presidency in the 1970s failed , it is necessary first to return to some of the earlier analyses . |
| 12 | Before hearing the speech of the hon. Member for Leeds , Central ( Mr. Fatchett ) I was going to say how much we had missed him in Committee . |
| 13 | I 'm beginning to realize why perfectly sane people pitch themselves at the mercy of the elements miles from the security of terra firma , has provided the perfect resort for our first events of the . |
| 14 | ‘ Er — he 's out playing golf , ’ her mother replied , and , while Leith was beginning to wonder how long it would be before her father discovered that his joint savings account with his wife had a dent in it , her mother was swiftly changing the subject . |
| 15 | He was beginning to wonder how much more he could take . |
| 16 | ‘ She 'd be coming to see how abysmally we are served , that she could inform the queen our mother of our situation . ’ |
| 17 | Marcion felt that even the apostles themselves had seriously misunderstood the intentions of their Master by failing to see how utterly new his message was . |
| 18 | Wall Street is starting to wonder how long the Federal Reserve can continue to ignore such evidence of rising inflation , despite pressure from the White House to lower interest rates . |
| 19 | Floy glanced over his shoulder , trying to gauge how far they had come and in which direction the road now lay . |
| 20 | Many determined publishers and printers from the USA , Germany , Italy and France are taking a keen interest in this enigmatic country and in the limitless market , trying to decide how best to break into this Klondike . |
| 21 | He could hear her becoming still next to him , trying to decide how best to attack , and he grinned in readiness . |
| 22 | Now that Hunt 's committee has ducked all the technical issues and government ministers can not agree on a policy , officials inside the Department of Industry are trying to decide how tightly the government should control the type of cable system laid , what technology to recommend and who should be allowed to do what . |
| 23 | He broke off and Julia knew that he was trying to decide how far to let his honesty take him . |
| 24 | Another difficulty arises when trying to assess how far different media may be taken as propositional . |
| 25 | We can set up situations — as noted by John Webster — in which we try to find out what is important to the animal by looking at what it prefers and trying to assess how much it will work for something ; how important that particular resource is to the animal . |
| 26 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |