Example sentences of "how [pers pn] have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 2 | Well , that was n't how she had behaved at home . |
| 3 | How she had worked at it , evening after evening since she was nine , learning to ride , learning to jump , falling off , hurting herself , carrying on doggedly with Uncle Knacker shouting at her . |
| 4 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 5 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 6 | I remembered how my wife had held the girls in her arms , and how she had smiled at me when we looked at them . |
| 7 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 8 | She remembered how she had looked at Rose in some surprise , and said , ‘ Yes , that would be swell , but I have n't enough money with me to pay for supper . ’ |
| 9 | However , there is a question about what a naturalized epistemology can offer by way of an explanation or justification of the contributions to knowledge that we make by contributing to an ongoing process of inquiry : we want to know , in such cases , not how we have arrived at the truth , but how what we do can be understood as contributing to the fact that someone else ( or perhaps ourselves ) can arrive at the truth at some time in the future . |
| 10 | Sometimes they wo n't , intuitive people ca n't actually tell you exactly how they 've arrived at this perception , they 've just got it . |
| 11 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 12 | He would groan when he realised , afterwards , how he had raged at Maria Filippa . |
| 13 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 14 | She remembered how he had looked at her-awed , his eyes round in his face — and laughed , imagining it . |
| 15 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 16 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 17 | Christopher Taylor blinked back tears as he described how he had arrived at the hospital to find his son , seven-week-old Liam , had suffered a mysterious collapse . |
| 18 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 19 | That remark sent a flash of real irritation through her , as Ronni remembered how he had laughed at her before , mocking what he perceived to be her dull life in London . |
| 20 | Prison Officer , Ron Adams , explains how he has worked at Risley and Strangeways and hopes past trouble there will not be repeated at Bullingdon . |
| 21 | Prison Officer , Ron Adams , explains how he has worked at Risley and Strangeways and hopes past trouble there will not be repeated at Bullingdon . |