Example sentences of "you [verb] how [adj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you ju , you know , you judge how good it is |
| 2 | Have you forgotten how easy it is to delude yourself into believing you are in love ? |
| 3 | Do you know how much it is ? |
| 4 | Do you know how far it is to my house from here ? |
| 5 | " How do you know how old it is ? " |
| 6 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 7 | That 's right , then you realise how little it is . |
| 8 | ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . ) |
| 9 | ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . ) |
| 10 | you realise how important it is , that a , you 've got to learn self control in life , and that 's what Jenny learnt , she , she , never had to learn it , she had it from naturally from a , a little child . |
| 11 | ‘ Have you seen how far it is to the bathroom ? ’ |
| 12 | Have you seen how clean it is ? |
| 13 | ‘ If only I could make you see how wonderful it is . ’ |
| 14 | Do n't you see how wrong it is , to trick this man out of his job ? ’ she said , looking round the table . |
| 15 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 16 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 17 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |
| 18 | You know how difficult it is to get your hands on anything these days — and your mother tries so hard to make you look nice . |
| 19 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 20 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know how hard it is to get away , Rose . ’ |
| 22 | You know how hard it is to paint like that ’ . |
| 23 | You know how tight it is just now what with your mother 's funeral expenses . |
| 24 | You know how important it is not to look exceptional . |
| 25 | You know how important it is , a club 's known by the quality of its fourth side . |
| 26 | You understand how important it is now ? ’ |
| 27 | You feel how hard it is . |
| 28 | A note-form outline of the essay provides a clear conceptual structure , and offers you an overview , which — when inspected closely — should allow you to assess how coherent it is , and how clearly it moves to your conclusion . |
| 29 | If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly … |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you care how barbaric it is ? |