Example sentences of "how [det] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 2 | ‘ Look how little money we are getting to clean up Chernobyl ’ , was the complaint during last week 's strikes in Minsk . |
| 3 | And I think that a lot of shoppers tend to forget that every time you buy anything from a shop , even if all you spent is ten pence , it does n't matter how little money you 've spent , but every time you buy anything from a shop you have a contract with the shop and the shop has a contract with you . |
| 4 | Privately police officers have told us , decisions on cautioning can depend on how much or how little faith they have in the courts to pass adequate sentences , and on how much paper work is required for a prosecution . |
| 5 | How little faith you have ! |
| 6 | How little faith you have ! ’ |
| 7 | How little faith you have ! |
| 8 | How little faith you have ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes you come in and feel optimistic because you have done your work the previous night and the morning 's work reminds you of how little progress you have made . |
| 10 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't you hear from the tone of Holberg 's Epistle how little sympathy he had for her ! |
| 12 | Notice , possum , how little make-up I 'm wearing . |
| 13 | This is remarkable , given how little evidence he really had for his theory and how much of the evidence he had was wrong ! |
| 14 | She is slightly cheered by the thought of how little reward they would reap from their dishonesty if all consumers were as moderate as she . |
| 15 | The fact that Opposition Members should regret the fact that my right hon. Friend is in Rome , shows how little attention they pay to defence and NATO matters . |
| 16 | I had brought three beautiful children into this world without realising just how little control I would have over the quality of their lives . |
| 17 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 18 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 19 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 20 | It is remarkable indeed how little understanding we have of warfare in this period ; and we shall never know in detail how medieval kings acquired and held their power unless we can find out more precisely how they recruited their armies and led them . |
| 21 | The abiding impression was how little trouble they were , which greatly surprised Nigel . |
| 22 | I bet even they were surprised at how little time it took ! ’ |
| 23 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |
| 24 | By the time they reached the coffee stage it had become clear that he was doing his best to pump her , though she hoped he had not yet realised how little result he was getting , or how assiduously she was trying , in her turn , to find out more about him . |
| 25 | Stephen told them how that morning he had seen a girl out on the moor alone . |
| 26 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 27 | What you will have to protect , with all the ingenious means we have looked at , is just how this murder you have devised was committed . |
| 28 | We have also recorded the older generation in our own families — noticing how some things we knew went unmentioned , but also making some surprising new discoveries of our own family secrets . |
| 29 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 30 | By how few times he has lost his way ? |