Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 2 | You know , depends on how you retail it first but |
| 3 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 4 | Note the loss of the thumb on the hand of this kind of monkey and how it uses its first or index finger to grip items of food . |
| 5 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 6 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |