Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 2 | He became particularly interested in how they managed to combine this well-organized and criminal activity with an image of themselves as law-abiding citizens . |
| 3 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 4 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 5 | I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple . |
| 6 | He did not tell her how he had performed this miracle , nor did she ask . |
| 7 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 8 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |