Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pilot-induced phugoid — shoving the stick to 10 kts over the cruise speed and seeing how long it takes to stabilise in pitch — resulted in one swoop and a small dive before VS returned to level flight . |
| 2 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 3 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 4 | And remembering how furiously the Larks and the Covington-Pyms — and no doubt Goldsborough himself — had opposed the opening of parliament to the new and much despised middle-classes , he wondered afresh why the captain should now be murmuring against his own kin . |
| 5 | We are setting targets and publishing how often we meet them |
| 6 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |
| 7 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
| 8 | I was somewhere in the middle , jog-trotting laboriously with the rest and wondering how much longer I could keep going . |
| 9 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 10 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 11 | Predicting needs and evaluating how successfully courses fulfil them is a key area for any further development of the training scheme ’ . |
| 12 | In the past , Ernst & Young in Glasgow operated a ‘ Quality Service Programme ’ , an internal system for examining the services which the firm was providing and evaluating how well the firm was performing . |
| 13 | This week , we 'll be examining the need for bypasses more closely , and asking why so much freight is carried by road . |
| 14 | The issue is not whether we should study the constitution , but the problem is one of deciding just what is the constitution and determining how best to study it . |
| 15 | This would mean starting with a random set of , say , 20 possible routes between the towns , and calculating how long the journeys would be . |
| 16 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 17 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 18 | Additional aims included gaining further information about the timing and frequency of recurrence and learning how often this was associated with symptoms . |
| 19 | Collocational information is obtained by taking a corpus and finding how often pairs of words are found together . |
| 20 | In being who he was : that was his vocation , and discovering how far he could go and even , fatally , what he could get away with . |
| 21 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 22 | It is again perhaps surprising that needs in Waltham Forest are greater than in Knowsley and striking how much higher the estimated needs are for Hackney than for Knowsley ; part of the reason for the lowish assessment for Knowsley is due to the very low proportion of elderly , although this might easily be offset in principle by the atypically high proportions of children there . |
| 23 | Two hideous yuppies in tubular stainless steel sipping minimalist cocktails — no olives or fruit salad — God , give my ageing pectorals strength ! — and contemplating how much they can borrow to house their sterile fucking , dear . |
| 24 | It then measures the thickness of the wall by pressing it with its mandibles and detecting how much it bends . |