Example sentences of "he [vb past] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 2 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 3 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 4 | He realised how odd he must look , sitting up in bed , silver bristling his cheeks , coffee mug in one hand , long-barrelled pistol in the other . |
| 5 | Now , as he grew older and more mature , especially after his hectic and sometimes horrifying war experiences , he realised how lucky he was to be born and live in such a place . |
| 6 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 7 | Allan said when he realised how the football disaster , which claimed 95 lives , had left his son . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether it was because he realised how hard it 'd be for us to get enough for both of us , or whether he knew he was off his head and needed someone around who was n't , y'know what I mean , to look after the kids and sort things out , like . |
| 9 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 10 | ‘ Vengeance , ’ said Huy , meaning it , but speaking the word before he realised how theatrical it must sound . |
| 11 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
| 12 | Looking back he said he realised how clumsily he had behaved in certain situations , and indeed what an ‘ unpleasant ’ person ( that was the adjective he used ) he knew he had sometimes been . |
| 13 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 14 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 15 | But before the end of the conversation he realized how vocation pulled Ramsey towards Durham , and talked about ‘ a theological bishop ’ and did not discourage . |
| 16 | At the same time , he realized how much poster artists had derived from the ‘ fine ’ artists of the past . |
| 17 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 18 | He also suffered from a morbid fear of castration which lingered with him throughout his life ; possessed of plenty , as he saw it , he realized how much he had to lose . |
| 19 | And now , when it was almost his , he realized how much he would miss Larksoken , its remoteness , its bleak uncompromising strength . |
| 20 | It might help if he realized how much you did love her . ’ |
| 21 | He realized how huge was that flying fortress-monastery of the Imperial Fists where he would remain for at least several years . |
| 22 | He realized how to best utilize his assets to manoeuvre the play . ’ |
| 23 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |
| 24 | He realized how far behind we lagged over here in this sort of Child Art Education . |
| 25 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 26 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 27 | I needed to see his expression as he realized how much I meant to him . |
| 28 | Earlier this week , he asked how effective the flood defences had been on February 20 and what changes to policy , investment programme and evacuation procedures were planned . |
| 29 | He asked how it felt . |
| 30 | He asked how many eggcups she had and what colour they was |