Example sentences of "how [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Given our games , and how everyone else has done its not too bad .
2 That 's the word to describe how everyone now feels about the future of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board .
3 The moral consequences we have drawn from awareness of how someone else feels could not be derived from the mere knowledge that he is suffering and needs my help .
4 Christ you had a tight shirt on last night , and that 's how I do , that 's how I just say to her .
5 To this day I have no idea how I nearly managed to kill my flight commander during a taxying accident , but I did .
6 That was how I eventually got my bicycle .
7 That 's how I always remember you , Molly Coddle . ’
8 Then she was smiling , saying , ‘ Funny how I always run into orphans , is n't it ?
9 It 's exactly how I always imagined Italy would be . ’
10 She understood at once about me — how I always loved bright colours , outrageous clothes , unsuitable jewellery — but she seems to prefer to be invisible .
11 And that 's how I always start my day , is n't it ?
12 You remember , Franz , how I always liked bright , even garish colours ?
13 Well that 's how I always did it but Ralph usually does it now .
14 ‘ I ca n't think how I ever cared for the things .
15 It 's this trip , I keep blaming myself I keep asking myself how I ever let myself get dragged into it ,
16 How I ever found my way back is a miracle , but , eventually , I touched wood again and , somehow , managed to haul myself up and over .
17 How much more pleasing to the eye and the higher senses were the gleaming unbroached jars in the pantry , and how I suddenly hated the men who had assured me that in their attentions lay my fulfilment .
18 that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one
19 How I quite enjoyed it but it 's got deep bunkers .
20 They also made me extremely randy , an effect I pointed out to you , who seemed unaffected in that department and were astonished that they should stimulate my already overwrought sexuality — ‘ oversexed and under seventy ’ is how I still think of myself .
21 There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands .
22 If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul .
23 ‘ Well , do you want to know how I really caught it ? ’
24 Christ and how I really love you . ’
25 What a relief to be able to complain … openly , … freely , to say how I really feel !
26 He says I should wait to see how I really feel , but I do n't want to get married and my religious beliefs exclude sex outside marriage .
27 That was how I really got to know my Yorkshire .
28 How I really loved Bermondsey .
29 How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know !
30 I do n't know how I never said it before .
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