Example sentences of "[prep] how [pers pn] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 2 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 3 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 4 | Both these versions of the expertise theory assure us that the special expertise of directors at once justifies conferring upon them the discretion to run the business and imposes a restraint on how they exercise that discretion . |
| 5 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |