Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to know about me and my business and how I thought they could help , ’ he recalls . |
| 2 | Sanglemore is how I think they pronounce it . |
| 3 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 4 | That was how she knew they had arrived . |
| 5 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 6 | How she wished they could turn him out at once . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't understand how you knew they would come back here , to this time , at this place in the universe . |
| 8 | This is how you realise they have different origins . |
| 9 | The formula here is to say : ‘ I understand that you [ state how you think they feel ] but I would like you to … ’ |
| 10 | How you think they 're spelt . |
| 11 | How we explained they interpreted and explained unemployment , and how it related to their other political beliefs and behaviour . |
| 12 | Or at least , that 's how we suppose they get away with it if the legends are true and they really still exist . |
| 13 | Feedback from peers can be a powerful mirror , showing clients how things are , rather than how they assume they are . |
| 14 | That 's how they know they have it . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of women would n't have the nerve to wear this , possum ( how they wish they 'd had my recipe for stretch-mark ointment ) but I feel I have to thrust ahead at the forefront of fashion . |
| 16 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 17 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 18 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 19 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 20 | There were different nuances in terms of what people thought of as the barriers and how they thought they could be overcome . |
| 21 | We have also asked schools to try to tell us how they think they are operating and carrying out what they say they are doing . |
| 22 | The result will be a collection of information about that community 's overt language attitudes : how they feel they should , or others do , behave . |
| 23 | You know how they say they were driving home to erm |
| 24 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 25 | But , erm in terms of more subjective er , is er , the two , two particular features which are important , one is descent , how they reckon they descent . |
| 26 | I can not explain how it feels they may not be human , but they are flesh and blood . ’ |