Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " 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 | John could not concentrate on anything for very long but we were unsure just how long he typically managed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And with Ariel a prisoner her young caveys seemed to forget how once they too had loved to hunt . |
| 17 | [ in a frenzy of remorse ] O , how heartily I now despise all my former pursuits and headstrong appetites . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How long those last back in the office , and how far they actually influence decision-making , is unquantifiable . |
| 20 | Polly let her breath out in a whoosh of relief , looking down to check how far she still had to go . |
| 21 | We must now ask whether that ideal is sound , and how far it actually supports conventionalism . |
| 22 | Subjects were then asked to give a written rating to each of the junctions of how well they previously knew it . |
| 23 | It was queer , how well she still knew him . |
| 24 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 25 | But it is pertinent to ask how well he really fits his born-again image . |
| 26 | Alyssia looked at his expressive hands , the long , clever fingers , and she wondered how well he really knew this woman . |
| 27 | But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp . |
| 28 | Edward 's second and third brothers , Ernest and Theodore , have recorded how occasionally they too shared these nature explorations and fishing expeditions in the London woodlands and around Swindon . |
| 29 | Crimes against society , such as theft , murder and outright war , as well as bad actions against family and friends , spring from our inborn desire to get our own way and do what we want , however much we normally keep those feelings under control . |
| 30 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |