Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] how [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 2 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , he came to Trantridge once and tried to show me how wicked my life was . |
| 4 | ‘ After he 'd given you how much ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 5 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 6 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 7 | You forgot to tell me how much I owe . ’ |
| 8 | But , against a huge backcloth of mod images , bold arrows and No Entry signs and Union Jacks , beautifully executed songs like ‘ Ca n't Explain' , ‘ Substitute ’ and ‘ Magic Bus ’ served to remind us how innovative a songwriter Townshend could be . |
| 9 | After a while Memet followed to tell her how much he loved her , but she would n't listen . |
| 10 | Gradually , during his visits there , he began to tell her how much he had been looking forward to it , and confided how he would remember their ‘ walking the policies , ( which is what Delia Sutherland called a businesslike like across her property ) and sitting up late at night drinking brandy , discussing plans . |
| 11 | He thought I was cross , so he got flustered and started telling me how much he loved me , and that was n't what I wanted to hear either , though of course in one way it 's what I always want to hear . |
| 12 | I did tell him how much it was I said sixteen pound sixteen pound for Angela . |
| 13 | I did tell you how old I am , did n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 15 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 16 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 17 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 18 | And yet it was not all bad news , she reminded herself , because Matthew was no longer condemned to go underground in order to earn a living , and David had told her how amazed he was at ‘ the boy 's remarkably quick mind and business acumen ’ . |
| 19 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 20 | But he had shown her how this , the most real place she knew , was in other ways quite hollow . |
| 21 | I was overjoyed that our letters had regained their old intimacy , and I wrote telling him how much I delighted in sharing his thoughts once more . |
| 22 | I had to tell her how old you were , I said fifty , she did n't believe me |
| 23 | He just wanted to warn her how hopeless her case was . |
| 24 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 25 | I wanted to tell you how sorry I was about Sybil Vane . |
| 26 | He wanted to show me how much he 'd got out of them . |