Example sentences of "how [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 2 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 3 | All she wanted to do was shovel that crap up her nose , and if that 's how someone wants to pass their time , then there 's diddly-squat you can do to stop them . ’ |
| 4 | The reason why we 're less familiar with that is that we have a secret ballot and so there is no way of knowing how someone has cast their vote , and so there 's no way of effectively forcing someone to cast their vote one way or another . |
| 5 | I shall make an announcement later , indicating how I hope to increase the inspectorate . |
| 6 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 7 | I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was once £400 lying in your bank account collecting interest — see how I 've grown . |
| 9 | I sit and think how I 've struggled to get a home together , and within a couple of minutes it 's all smashed up . |
| 10 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know how I 've kept my hands off you , ’ he murmured , as his lips found the tender skin below her ear . |
| 12 | But it 's how I 've survived . ’ |
| 13 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 14 | That 's how I 've er that 's how I 've gone through life , my lad , that is . |
| 15 | That 's how I 've decided to approach my life here . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know how I 've done it . |
| 17 | see how I 've saved it all those years . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally . |
| 19 | Do you have any idea how I 've felt , weekend after weekend , knowing you 're crawling down muddy holes or chucking yourself off cliffs ? |
| 20 | it 's same with a Samsung , I end up sometimes putting it in the Toshiba one , to re-wind it back , but I 've had some funny tapes I have just lately , it 's the tape that wo n't re-wind , because how I 've noticed been the tape like , cos I 've put it in the Toshiba and re-wound , but it would n't even re-wind in the Toshiba , so Arthur says well he says that 's the tapes |
| 21 | ‘ Ye do n't know how I 've missed ye . ’ |
| 22 | She longed to hear him say , ‘ God , how I 've missed you ! |
| 23 | ‘ How I 've missed you , ’ he murmured as his hands slowly moved down her back and then traced the swell of her buttocks . |
| 24 | ‘ Jasus how I 've missed you , ’ he says . |
| 25 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 26 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 27 | Just as I never never let other girls see that I know I am pretty ; nobody knows how I 've fallen over myself not to take that unfair advantage . |
| 28 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 29 | Well er I did n't want to be out of it or , awkward or off it or anything , if it was right , and I felt that it was right , I 'd adhere to that , whether or not , you follow what I mean , that 's how I 've lived me life , Michael , yes . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |