Example sentences of "how [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I pointed to it , I said to the Queen Mother , ’ You see , Ma'am , how badly they treat parliamentarians in this constituency , ’ to which she swiftly replied , ’ Ah , yes , Mr. Walker , but they are very good to royalists . ’ |
| 2 | Earlier this year we had a visitor from the Jewish National Fund who told us how badly they need men — and women , too -in Eretz , as well as money . |
| 3 | Z Z Top are perhaps the only boogie band with a sense of irony , and their Greatest Hits package shows how brilliantly they combine John Lee Hooker with T-Rex . |
| 4 | We have surveyed 176 companies who hold regular conferences in order to find out how highly they rated leisure facilities in deciding on their choice of venue . |
| 5 | But no matter how fluently you speak English you are likely to have at least some problems when you write it . |
| 6 | As for NME 's opinion of her work , you should know how much we love Madonna by how much we love Ice-T , Suede and all the other insolent wasters we praise to the hilt each week . |
| 7 | As for NME 's opinion of her work , you should know how much we love Madonna by how much we love Ice-T , Suede and all the other insolent wasters we praise to the hilt each week . |
| 8 | ‘ Bitch , ’ I screamed down the phone at her then , remembering how much they like dogs here , I shouted in English , ‘ Whore ! |
| 9 | To anyone who did n't live in Birmingham at the time , it 's impossible to convey how much they affected people . |
| 10 | One does n't know how much they feared death , but it did n't come out , at any rate in their painting or sculpture . |
| 11 | ‘ What people do n't realise is how much distress it can cause when a horse is taken how much they become part of the family . ’ |
| 12 | And this shows how much they love Lord Frith , for of all the animals they are the most responsive to his warmth and brightness . |
| 13 | So you can see how much they needed Malc 's stabilising influence . |
| 14 | As to how much it costs Davies Brook to produce each bottle of table water , we were told that was confidential information . |
| 15 | The main experimental procedure will involve measuring how long it takes people to read successive segments of carefully-prepared sentences presented on a microcomputer screen . |
| 16 | That 's how long it took Leicester to find a winner . |
| 17 | At present there is no time limit on how long you hold stock — with the result that many appro forms date back some years . |
| 18 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 19 | ‘ How utterly you love life . |
| 20 | It is curious how easily we allow liberty to be eroded . |
| 21 | Thoughts set up a resonance which attracts certain events , people and situations into our lives , while the strength of our emotions determines how rapidly we attract events . |
| 22 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 23 | See how quickly it changes tools ? ’ |
| 24 | Bowler now frequently accompanied Minton on his social round and at cocktail parties noticed how quickly he livened things up . |
| 25 | David Tindle also tells how once he visited Minton at Allen Street and found him , in very good mood , getting out new laundry . |
| 26 | ‘ Sir , In reply to your letter received this morning I want to no how ever you think i can pay 4s. a week towards my Father . |
| 27 | We are grateful for the opportunity to stress how urgently we believe MPG Note 3 is in need of a fundamental revision . |
| 28 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 29 | How often we confine faith and insult God by entertaining puny conceptions of him ! |
| 30 | No matter how often we tell people that a dog is for life , not just for Christmas , some are always abandoned within hours of being given as a present . ’ |