Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] how [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
2 | ‘ He asked me how much money ’ , Abrams testified . |
3 | Brampton Theatre asked me how much it was going to cost , so I , off the top of my head I said twenty pounds |
4 | He asked me how much |
5 | She asked me how many children 's I 'd fostered , but I said I could n't remember . |
6 | We had to believe the photographs which appeared in the newspapers , but I think we all asked ourselves how such things could be in a so-called civilised world . |
7 | ‘ It still amazes me how much she has come on and is improving all the time . |
8 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
9 | want you know the the key thing is to discover what how much work a week you know how many hours a week they think it 's going to take now that 's |
10 | Stephen told them how that morning he had seen a girl out on the moor alone . |
11 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
12 | I told them how some years ago we in Scotland had not co-operated with the media . |
13 | And she told me how many shifts you work , the different groups in this home and what type of clients , how to treat them . ’ |
14 | Harvey told me how each part of the computer was named after a section of the human brain : the Medulla , Pons and Midbrain . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ He was very sweet about it , he told me how much he liked the presents and what he and his dad were doing . |
17 | He patted me on the back and told me how much he needed and appreciated my support . |
18 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
19 | Han told me how much you enjoyed riding . ’ |
20 | Can you show me how much they 'd get ? |
21 | The Not contracted-out Tables show you how much to pay and what NI contribution information to record on the employee 's Deduction Working Sheet ( P11 ) . |
22 | show you how much you do . |
23 | I 've read pa I 've read I 'll show you how much I 've read . |
24 | ‘ One day I will show you how these things are made . ’ |
25 | Your Alexander teacher will show you how this can be done with the minimum amount of effort . |
26 | 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 ’ . |
27 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
28 | When she did , she told him how much she loved him — how she 'd always loved him . |
29 | When he reached the end , she went up to him , shyly told him how much she liked what she had heard . |
30 | I told him how much pleasure it gave me to think of him in charge of the school next year . |