Example sentences of "how [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [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 | Literary critics vary in how technical they think literary criticism should be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Right , you 've got a garden hose running off your mains as well using , say , twe I do n't know how much it uses twenty gallons a minute , something like that . |
| 5 | do you know how much she had personal money ? |
| 6 | Though it was only over dinner that Lisa had begun to realise just how much she needed this rest . |
| 7 | D' you know how much she earned last year ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was a strange letter , as Bill told me at numbing length how much he hated literary magazines , and how he knew I did as well . |
| 10 | During this time Dad was discovering how much he liked other people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was happy to know how much I enjoyed Russian literature . |
| 15 | You know how much I dislike that word . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 18 | " I did n't realise how much I interested some men . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps er , you 'd just like to remind us erm , what your strategy is and no doubt how unfair you felt that comment was ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His initiative in calling together the World Religions at Assisi and his message to the annual meeting of World Religions each year since Assisi shows how important he considers interreligious understanding and co-operation . |
| 24 | 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 |