Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 2 | Above our hearing , bats flit around in total darkness , judging their distance from objects by emitting high-pitched bursts of sound and timing how long it takes fro the echo of the sound to bounce back . |
| 3 | the nature of the illness or injury , how long it has already continued and your prospects for recovery ; |
| 4 | How easy it had all seemed then — how exciting ! |
| 5 | She remembered from last time how quickly it got too tight . |
| 6 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 7 | 1 room-by-room guide to Chatsworth ( bit cheeky , this , as it is simply to perplex guides and attendants who are not used to seeing people coming round their house with noses stuck in guide to a completely different mansion , though you 'd be surprised how often it fits well anywhere ) |
| 8 | How well it had all worked out ! |
| 9 | And how hard it has all been . |
| 10 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | The pattern of duality is broken , significantly , in two places : at the very beginning , in the poignantly simple opening sentence ; and at the very end , where there is the unexpected addition of a third , and longer member to the parallelism of how clauses : and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea " . |
| 12 | Every religion has been a tradition of response to him , however darkly it groped towards him , however anxiously it shied away from him . ’ |