Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , firstly , I happen to like living here , ’ Ashley told him , ‘ and secondly , I fail to see how me running my workshop is going to bother anyone . ’ |
| 2 | How dem oppress we ? |
| 3 | Yes , in the language of Buddhism you do not speak about ‘ How I impel this thing ’ but how it releases itself . |
| 4 | But note how I at least attempt to show HOW I formed my opinion . |
| 5 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 6 | In my own garden the twisted hazel , Corylus avellana ‘ Contorta ’ , is underplanted with primroses , bluebells and wood anemones , for that is how I remember them growing , as they still do , along the banks of the rive Greta . |
| 7 | This is how I remember it . |
| 8 | How I remember outside is like the end of a erm O U T spells out . |
| 9 | And that 's how I remember it O U T spells |
| 10 | At least , she told herself , that 's how I remember it . |
| 11 | Yes that 's how I remember it . |
| 12 | That 's how I remember the very first day of the war . |
| 13 | and er that 's how I remember it by except for of course the war ended in nineteen forty five but were n't |
| 14 | So that 's how I remember it . |
| 15 | You may forget me , though how I hope you wo n't ! |
| 16 | How I hope that . |
| 17 | I shall make an announcement later , indicating how I hope to increase the inspectorate . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll do business how I like , with whom I like , and when I like , and I do n't need your focking permission to do it , Nicholas Breakspear . |
| 20 | ‘ I can talk how I like , as well as you ! ‘ |
| 21 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 22 | That 's how I like them , worried . |
| 23 | This is how I like things — me pulling the strings , getting them to dance to my tune . |
| 24 | ‘ I think I said ‘ That 's how I like them ’ — and got a filthy look for my pains . ’ |
| 25 | She knows that 's not how I like it . ’ |
| 26 | Sorry , but that 's how I like you — warm , faceless , friendly and available — like a mother 's breast . |
| 27 | because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be |
| 28 | I can dress how I like and do what I like . |
| 29 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 30 | It is in good condition and the grass is how I like it . ’ |