Example sentences of "how [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And just how long had Janine been beating the child ?
2 How long had Mrs O'Neill been mad ?
3 How long had Eddy been dead before they noticed him ?
4 How long had Mr Utterson , Doctor Jekyll , and Doctor Lanyon been friends ?
5 How long had Donald got ?
6 ‘ For how long did Ted Mosse live in Mouncy Street ? ’
7 How long did daddy say he was gon na be Francis ?
8 But how exactly did men " govern manfully " in the ninth century ?
9 Morel hunters in-the-know rarely reveal the locations of good hunting grounds , and the abundance of any year 's crop seems to depend upon a great many variables such as : how cold a winter preceded , how gradually did temperatures warm from winter to spring , does the soil have adequate moisture ?
10 I mean , how short did Dad expect Roge 's memory to be ?
11 How often had Wycliffe told himself that the only obvious beneficiary from Francis 's death was his daughter ?
12 How far had Jones and also Fleischmann and Pons reached in their researches by late 1988 ?
13 But how far did discretion carry ?
14 First , how far did Barth do what he is accused of ? and second , to what extent is there here a basis for valid criticism ?
15 How far did war affect the economy or bring about social change ?
16 How far did Ann go in ten seconds ?
17 How far did Ann go in ten seconds ?
18 How well did children respond ?
19 How well did Kipling describe a microscope as ‘ the eye of Allah , ’ and these wretched creatures as the legions of the devil .
20 The local contests showed just how racially polarised Chicago politics remains .
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