Example sentences of "[prep] how [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 For , as we have seen , interpretation is involved in the description of facts ( including the results of tests ) and hence the consistency of prediction with fact is partly a matter of how we choose to read it .
2 Well the specific question I asked is whether you 've quantified in percentage terms erm perhaps Group Captain you could give us an indication of how it has affected it ?
3 Talk of how you have missed them , instead of letting loose an avalanche of words about all that has gone wrong that day ?
4 I bumped into him and told him I was sorry to hear about his sister , which I was , despite how she 'd treated us .
5 Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions .
6 For the woman who is already a mother , the challenges are now those of coping with growing children and seeing them leave home ; the challenges are always somehow different from how you have imagined them .
7 I depend on how they decide to fund you .
8 on how he managed to give them up .
9 Depends on how you want to work it .
10 Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it .
11 Whilst recalling his early hardships Chaplin also provided a clue as to how he had overcome them for he spoke of how he had ‘ slaved like a nigger to master the difficult steps that formed the routine of the eight Lancashire lads ’ .
12 Since so much of our emotional energy , often subconsciously , is spent dealing with this fear , it 's important to have control over how we choose to confront it .
13 She could n't stop thinking about Nicolo , about how he 'd treated her , not just last night but moments before .
14 He could n't wait to get back to the station and brag about how he 'd seen him .
15 Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom .
16 The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people .
17 We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house .
18 That he thought ; sugared cakes , a block of cheese , would be all the more exquisite ; fitting — for how she had treated him .
19 I blamed her and the fact she was a Jew for how she had used us all .
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