Example sentences of "how [noun prp] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's how Eustace came to join the firm . |
| 2 | SHe had been impressed with how Tammuz had adjusted the machine to behave just like a real counter-girl . |
| 3 | He was n't sure how Creed had covered the distance between the window and the door . |
| 4 | However , one can accept the message and still wonder how Tolba proposes raising the money to buy peace . |
| 5 | The Sergeant could not but have noted how Lexandro had taken the lead … |
| 6 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 7 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 8 | This was not quite how Robert had planned the conversation . |
| 9 | I took him through the events of the day and in particular Graham Fearnley 's unpleasant tale of how Martinez had fixed the Curtis/Marsh contracts . |
| 10 | One of the great mysteries of the Bible , it has always seemed to me , was how Daniel managed to interpret the writing on the wall at Belshazzar 's impious feast . |
| 11 | Chapter 3 described how Skinner attempted to circumvent the thorny problem of mentalistic descriptions of language by insisting that descriptions of language focus on observable language behaviour . |
| 12 | The book of Genesis tells how God had created the world in six days and commanded the seventh to be a day of rest . |
| 13 | Earlier , the court had heard how Bedworth had run the rogue programme which generated the phone calls from his bedroom in North Parade , Ilkley , West Yorkshire . |
| 14 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 15 | In this context , the agrarian reform was perceived by the middle classes as decisive confirmation of how Castro intended to resolve the contradiction between his promises of social reform and his assurances that the wealthy had nothing to fear , and therefore provoked a swift backlash of opposition within Cuba . |
| 16 | The Zuckerman books help one to imagine how Roth has faced the reproach that he has derided his family and sold their secrets . |
| 17 | That was how Volkov had discovered the real implications of his release . |
| 18 | There was much controversy in the media about how Diana had defied the Queen to take Prince William on her first major overseas visit . |
| 19 | It was jealousy , I suppose ; the fact that I had spotted a chance they had not , although I could n't get over the suspicion that their reaction to me had something to do with how Liza had told the story . |
| 20 | The garden front , of Bargate stone , brick and tile , shows how Lutyens has exaggerated the local Surrey style to perfectly fitting proportions . |
| 21 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 22 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 23 | ‘ You get Mickey Mouse decisions when you come to Elland Road — that 's how Leeds managed to win the title . |
| 24 | It became a commonplace for novelists like Arnold Bennett and pioneering critics like Gilbert Seldes to talk of how Chaplin had overcome the limitations of cinema and ‘ passed beyond the form entirely . ’ |