Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 How did they actually do it ?
2 I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’
3 Old , old jeans , worn-out shirt ; how did he still manage to look so devastating ?
4 How did he always manage to turn the tables on her like that ?
5 How did he ever settle ? ’
6 How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg .
7 Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ?
8 God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ?
9 But how did it actually work ?
10 How did you really track this woman down ? ’
11 And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ?
12 But how did you ever meet them ?
13 John , how did you actually get interested in German history ?
14 How did you then set about using that information ?
15 He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously .
16 How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ?
17 Costa and Costa1 argue that word processing programs on microcomputers " have a way of transforming even computerphobes into dedicated believers of the " how did I ever live without it " variety " and , such is the difference in quality of output between documents produced on a word processor and those handwritten or typed on a conventional typewriter , that school librarians , teachers and pupils quickly become convinced of the need for and extensive uses of such programs .
18 How did I really know ?
19 I mean how did I really know I could trust adults ?
20 Why did nobody else see these footprints ? ’ he asked .
21 Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ?
22 Why did we never see the child ?
23 Why did they always cloak everything , if not with seven veils , at least with one ?
24 But why did they ever think a roof on its own was enough ?
25 So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension — a deep , numbing fear of what lay ahead ?
26 Why did she always have to fuck herself …
27 Oh , why did she never meet any nice men ?
28 Why did she never listen to music ?
29 And if Heather thought there was something sinister about her relationship with Jack Cornelius — assuming there was a relationship — why did she never ask me if I knew anything about it ? ’
30 Why did she suddenly decide to go out tonight ?
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