Example sentences of "[vb past] how he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 2 | Denis Wirth-Miller attended a talk he gave at Goldsmiths ' College and observed how he galvanised the audience . |
| 3 | Hillier , 49 , of Heddington , Wilts , was jailed in July after Winchester Crown Court heard how he cheated the taxman of £40,000 through secret payments to players . |
| 4 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |
| 5 | Before his death , the late Earl himself revealed how he suspected the estate was haunted by his father 's spirit . |
| 6 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 7 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
| 8 | Mozart radically altered the structure of the opera while he was writing it : in a letter to his father he explained how he reconstructed the part of Osmin , the Pasha 's Moorish servant ( a negligible role in the original libretto ) in order to show off the magnificent bass voice of the singer , Karl Ludwig Fischer , and how the part of Constanze was developed to accommodate the ‘ flexible throat ’ of the brilliant Italian coloratura soprano Caterina Cavalieri . |