Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] how the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tavern wench at The Bull told me how the landlord glimpsed the young lady and her companion riding through Godstowe . ’ |
| 2 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The steward told me how the management , had by chance , come across records of the women 's wages . |
| 5 | Rachel quickly told him how the heart attack had happened . |
| 6 | Show her how the level rises when she gets into the bath . |
| 7 | Carrie dropped to her knees to examine the ankle making sympathetic noises as Seb told her how the accident had occurred . |
| 8 | In her address , the Matron of Barnsley District General Hospital and also the Chairman of the Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital and Comforts Fund Committee , told us how the money raised last year had been used . |
| 9 | Well I mean he showed me how er er he showed me how the mallet is operated . |
| 10 | Using the magnifying glass he had found in the left-hand drawer , Ben had shown her how the print of the reflected newspaper was subtly different from the one the man held . |
| 11 | He had shown her how the frontispiece illustration was the key to it . |
| 12 | Colt had known the driver for eleven months , and he knew he was good because the Colonel had told him how the driver had once handled an ambush . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me how the world 's different . |
| 14 | Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that , within the limits set by the uncertainty principle , tell us how the universe will develop with time , if we know its state at any one time . |
| 15 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 16 | He was asking them how the hunt had begun , and what had happened before we joined it . |
| 17 | Fox F M reporter , Tiffany Foster asked her how the curiosity exhibition works . |
| 18 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 19 | During this rest period I interviewed Chris by telephone and asked him how the wedding of the year had gone . |
| 20 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 21 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has asked me how the discount system , as distinct from the rebate system , will work . |
| 22 | Lucy said , almost gently , ‘ Will you tell me how the setup works ? |
| 23 | I would be grateful if you could inform me how the figure on the invoice was calculated . |
| 24 | Many so-called experts will tell you how the game has changed over the last 30 years . |
| 25 | I can tell him how the Store nomes thought that his grandfather created the world . |
| 26 | This account gives rise to two questions , both of them large and difficult : first , how do ideological state apparatuses ( ISAs ) constitute individuals ; and second , how can Althusser justify his claim that his theory escapes the tentacles of ideology and tells us how the world really is ? |
| 27 | This part of the solution is indispensable as it tells us how the group can achieve its aim of profit maximisation . |
| 28 | That proof showed that general relativity is only an incomplete theory : it can not tell us how the universe started off , because it predicts that all physical theories , including itself , break down at the beginning of the universe . |
| 29 | Can the Minister tell us how the Government are ensuring the speedy response necessitated by changing circumstances in other parts of the world , particularly areas with which Britain had close links in the past ? |
| 30 | Given that we have no true regional representatives , I hope that the Minister can tell us how the Government believe that the committee will operate . |