Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] [modal v] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er of how would you get that across . |
| 2 | Was there any sort of how can I put it , any sort of feeling that certain individuals in the lodge would go back to work ? |
| 3 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 4 | Well what do the others think , I mean yeah it 's a sort of when should you let trainees answer your questions ? |
| 5 | and , and sort of when can we have a script you know and you write it down and take thirty per cent of it , or whatever you know , erm , I mean the other thing that Alex has drawn er |
| 6 | I know when , when invented scales back in the early thirties er typically they were declarative statements which people had to agree or disagree with erm but er I think perhaps more recently people have gone more for things that are a bit like how would you feel , what do you think type statements erm so er |
| 7 | Maybe that is the point : without being tuned in how can we know whether there is anything there or not ? |
| 8 | Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that . |
| 9 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 10 | This recalls the auxiliary use of need in questions , and indeed ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) above are equivalent to Why need we bother ? and Why need you make so much fuss ? , with all four sentences implying " for no good reason " ( cf. de Cornulier 1978 : 130 ) . |
| 11 | About how can you mind how many of you there would have been ? |
| 12 | We also expect the expert to inform us what is in our best interests , for how can we know this when the technical grounds for such judgements are , by definition , outside our competence . |
| 13 | I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ? |
| 14 | The dining room door opened — she did not look up , for how could she face Maman ? |
| 15 | Frederica said to Alexander , before he could say it to her , that there was an intrinsic problem in writing about artists , for how could he dramatise the battle with the colours and forms as opposed to the whore and the rival , the father , the brother , the nephew Vincent Van Gogh ? |
| 16 | ‘ Fear that you might leave Czechoslovakia without first returning to your hotel , ’ he replied , then grinned wryly as he added , ‘ For the first time in my life I find that I ca n't think logically — for why would you take a train to Mariánské Láznë to leave Czechoslovakia , when you could more easily take a plane from Prague ? |
| 17 | Because if we actually can address th those real concerns , you know , you know the point that brother just made about why should he leave you to join unison try and crystallize that out in a Northumberland way , if that 's possible , it may not be , it may be difficult on , on a short punchy A five leaflet it will probably service because I mean it c it can be photocopied , there 's nothing wonderful , I mean it does n't have to be sort of the most wonderful printing techniques and giving them desktop publishing . |