Example sentences of "how [adv] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside ; it is not very cold here , of course . |
| 2 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 3 | Sick humiliation choked her as she realised how naïvely self-satisfied she had been , and her spirits sank . |
| 4 | It is a call to us , too , to leave behind us the false self of our own independence , to celebrate how wholly dependent we are upon God . |
| 5 | It is sad in several ways , not just because it springs from genuine human grief but because poor Uncle Ted , no matter how theologically illiterate he may have been , deserves better . |
| 6 | The most striking thing about sleep patterns within a broad age group , however , is how remarkably uniform they are . |
| 7 | If we all realised just how intimately lonely we all are , the word and feeling ‘ lonely ’ could be cancelled from life 's experience and we would relate to one another in a more true fashion since we would be aware of the limitations of relationships . |
| 8 | He was suddenly and belatedly delightfully aware of her adoration , of her devotion , of her light hand with the pastry , and even at breakfast time he could contemplate with pleasure how jolly nice it would be to kiss her . |
| 9 | tell people how terribly bad it is tomorrow . |
| 10 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 11 | All the counterarguments flitted through his mind — the law of price and the business of supply and demand again — and he saw how impossibly incongruous they would sound in these circumstances . |
| 12 | As for regret , she was feeling that already , but how much sharper it would be when he decided he did n't want her any more , as he certainly would do sooner or later . |
| 13 | but how much wiser you are with Mr greed ! |
| 14 | ‘ Amazin' how much bigger they look out of the water , ’ commented Billy . |
| 15 | ‘ Strange how much bigger it seemed then , ’ she mused , as she stepped through the door . |
| 16 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 17 | How much better it would be for ministers to be seen in the constituencies giving us the ammunition we need to fight on the doorsteps . ’ |
| 18 | You 'll be amazed how much better it will make your garden look . |
| 19 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
| 20 | How much better it is when any facts or pieces of information come from you yourself . |
| 21 | How much better it is to surround oneself with nice paintings of collie dogs and children , sunsets and young lovers holding hands … ’ |
| 22 | How much better it would be to let them keep their existing SNA networks and pass other traffic across them . |
| 23 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 24 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 25 | Black Blossom dared to tease him about his height and wiggle her huge breasts in his face to show how much taller she was by comparison . |
| 26 | ‘ See how much simpler we have made it : as well as being the true faith we are the simplest . ’ |
| 27 | How much simpler it would be to parasitise a member of your own species . |
| 28 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 29 | Mr Peter Hamlyn , consultant neurosurgeon , at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , which treated 47 casualties , said : ‘ It 's difficult to think how much worse it could have been . |
| 30 | But think how much worse it could be . |