Example sentences of "tell me how " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 2 | Siah Armanjani once told me how he used to see the movies in his native Persia in the 1950s . |
| 3 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 4 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 5 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 6 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
| 7 | She was quiet and calm , and did n't talk much ( I was supposed to do the talking ) and she said she thought I should come every week , and told me how much it would cost . |
| 8 | Mrs Webster had a Friend ( to whom she always gave a metaphorical capital letter in speech ) , and she told me how much her Friend liked reading . |
| 9 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 10 | On another occasion , walking across the water-meadows away from Kidlington church towards Hampton Poyle , he told me how ( during one of the school holidays ) he had read Thomas Hardy 's Jude the Obscure and , at the end of the day , had climbed a haystack . |
| 11 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 12 | I 'd listened to my father when he told me how to act with the top players , and there was n't a blade of grass I did n't know at St Andrews . |
| 13 | We played a practice round with Jack Nicklaus , and Jack again told me how well he thought the only threat to Greg might be his confidence . |
| 14 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 15 | And she told me how many shifts you work , the different groups in this home and what type of clients , how to treat them . ’ |
| 16 | If you sent me a postcard with three Xs and told me how |
| 17 | One friend , whose widowed father has come to share their home , told me how hard it is to put up with his constant smoking . |
| 18 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 19 | He told me how you tried to rescue him . |
| 20 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 21 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 22 | Anne and her husband Alan , who was wearing a costume made by her grandmother which had also been worn by her father , told me how the village was changing . |
| 23 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 24 | He told me how he had had problems when young and had assumed that upon his marriage , he would break the habit . |
| 25 | Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet . |
| 26 | She simply told me how relieved she was that her husband had not put to sea that day . |
| 27 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 28 | She told me how sad it made her to go to races and see young people throwing their money away — had their parents never taught them to study form ? |
| 29 | Another young man told me how a Lubavitch rabbi helped him when he got into trouble with the police . |
| 30 | ‘ He was very sweet about it , he told me how much he liked the presents and what he and his dad were doing . |