Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own garden the twisted hazel , Corylus avellana ‘ Contorta ’ , is underplanted with primroses , bluebells and wood anemones , for that is how I remember them growing , as they still do , along the banks of the rive Greta . |
| 2 | That 's how I thought she 'd one it for my dad |
| 3 | I thought I 'd like to see how I looked teaching rather than how I thought I looked . |
| 4 | That 's how I started you , that 's how I taught you to dance . ’ |
| 5 | Those shoes are horrible and she , mummy turned round with something about how I make her feel old , ugly and all sad and |
| 6 | Today , too ; how I wished you had been with me at the concert . |
| 7 | How I wished I 'd stayed there ! |
| 8 | How I wished I had n't left my camera at home . |
| 9 | Now , did you notice how I said everyone followed by their ? |
| 10 | How I made him betray what he believed ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Bein' as how I saw what happened that night … ’ |
| 12 | How I wish it had n't been ! |
| 13 | ‘ How I wish I had been there ! ’ said Gildas , not for the first time . |
| 14 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 15 | But how I wish I had a body of my own , one that did my bidding . |
| 16 | Oh , how I wish I knew … . |
| 17 | How I wish I 'd seen Shirley Cowling 's article ( Nov '91 ) on ‘ Choosing the first machine ’ eight years ago ! |
| 18 | How I wish I 'd never seen him ! |
| 19 | ‘ How I wish I dared ! |
| 20 | I 'd been asked how I wanted him dressed . |
| 21 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 22 | Need a yellow one on top how I love you chicken pots |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sure what to tell them about how I want it done , ’ she had said to Faye before leaving , running uncertain fingers through the dense yet fluffy waves . |
| 24 | I 'm really making up bits now , making the picture look how I want it to look — dark on light , light on dark — not forgetting to look in the mirror ! |
| 25 | I know exactly how I want it to look , Señor Lopez , but I do n't know exactly how to do it . |
| 26 | Sanglemore is how I think they pronounce it . |
| 27 | Our miracle — for that was how it felt , how she hoped it felt for all women . |
| 28 | Helen Attwell tells the moving story of how she discovered what happened to her brother and his crew on their last heroic flight in September 1940 . |
| 29 | That was how she knew they had arrived . |
| 30 | Rita Ablewhite knew this , though how she knew it remained , to Liz , a mystery which she did not think , did not care to question . |