Example sentences of "how [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His jeering remarks had hidden barbs , and just went to prove how little he cared either way . |
| 2 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 3 | Though it was only over dinner that Lisa had begun to realise just how much she needed this rest . |
| 4 | All her energies were too busy focusing on how much she disliked this man , who had not even deigned to tell her his name as yet , even though he knew hers . |
| 5 | he 's got two of them up there , engines and the big bikes so I 've got ta ring him up and see how much he wants some bits for . |
| 6 | Reluctantly Elfed left the room and I said to Cis , ‘ Ritchie is your son much more than your brother , and I know how much you love each other . |
| 7 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 8 | You know how much I dislike that word . |
| 9 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 10 | " I did n't realise how much I interested some men . |
| 11 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps er , you 'd just like to remind us erm , what your strategy is and no doubt how unfair you felt that comment was ? |
| 13 | Yet another way in which people may judge the costliness of different types of credit is how reasonable they think any credit terms are that they have recently been using . |
| 14 | England 's intention to strip their pace bowling to the bone is an indication of how futile they see that line of attack on slow Indian pitches . |
| 15 | stuff , I said he swept the hall , I said look how nice it looks this morning , I said and he did all the toilets and everything else |