Example sentences of "how [pron] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 2 | While her hands were busy rooting the ingredients out of their packs , Jezrael tried to work out just how she did feel about the Magyar , but that was a niggling discomfort blunted by the stone weight of her worry about Chesarynth — and about Antoine . |
| 3 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I ca n't imagine how you did think it would be . |
| 5 | This time even the much vaunted exit polls , which ask not how people intend to vote but how they did vote , got it wrong . |
| 6 | s he did n't remain in the parking in the driving seat er and in fact that that 's because one of the lads was er a keen photographer and er So that 's actually how it did go . |
| 7 | The trouble was that she was n't quite sure how it did work . |
| 8 | The timetable chart ( top ) shows how the bus was supposed to run and the one below how it did run . |
| 9 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |