Example sentences of "and [verb] how [adj] it is " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We can try shaming them out of the drugs business and say how un-Islamic it is ’ suggested Abdul Haq . |
2 | Otherwise we will come and see how bad it is . |
3 | I am well aware of my hon. Friend 's constituency interest as I visited that company and know how good it is . |
4 | If I can understand people after twenty five thirty years in sales and marketing listening to people on the phone and knowing how important it is in this then I then that 's fine . |
5 | She will look elegant in black , and she 'll cry delicately so as not to mar the whiteness of her skin , and dab her nose with a lace-edged handkerchief , and wear Mother 's jet brooch , and all the customers will sigh and say how sad it is , and young men will want to comfort and console her , and they will , oh yes , because she did n't really love him . |
6 | Let's look at each in turn , and see how easy it is to live without them for a short period . |
7 | And see how easy it is . |
8 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
9 | Recognize anger and see how destructive it is to you and to others around you , including those who love you and whom you love , Then you will want to do something about it . |
10 | Eat one of them , I , we have one afternoon like we usually do , we 'll have a look at it and see how big it is and all that , yours , and we 'll go from there , I mean actually for us three that trifle will only do that , they 're never that , that big |
11 | And erm and say I went shopping and I I saw that and I liked it and I thought oh I 'll go in and ask how much it is , he said give us twenty five quid for it , you can have the lot . |
12 | And yet we know the conditions under which the sequence was written and notice how fragile it is , how much a willed order , and how dependent upon a bravura performance — and suspect that it is from these elements that the permanent value of the poetry springs . |