Example sentences of "they [vb past] how the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they revealed how the secret of a happy marriage is compromise . |
| 2 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 3 | They told how the man whom they had trusted and referred to as ‘ Dad ’ fondled them indecently while they sat on his knee in their pyjamas watching television in his rooms at Elm Tree Farm Community Home , Stockton , Cleveland . |
| 4 | A meal would only cost five francs but they noticed how the prices went up if their escorts were American , English or Australian . |
| 5 | They showed how the organization of the schools played a part in the failure of certain pupils , and how the institution of streaming was actually helping to produce the very attitudes which led to the failure of children placed in the lower streams ( Burgess 1988 ) . |
| 6 | They must have all walked out on the movie before they saw how the tale ends . |
| 7 | And the place smelled too , of hot bodies , hot electrical equipment , and the fumes of whisky ; not surprising that , considering the amount of the stuff they swallowed during the half-hour he had spent in that crowded room full of people who talked to one another in an incomprehensible private language , and at him as though he were a stupid child when they explained how the program would run . |