Example sentences of "how [verb] [pron] [vb infin] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 How dared he insinuate that she lied ?
2 How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ?
3 Erm , also inclination of head towards the listener and erm erm , how did they feel that they 'd finished the erm , speaker 's intonation and a drop in volume of voice towards the end , and erm , also you 've got quite a full tags .
4 You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out .
5 Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ?
6 How did he know that I was lonely ?
7 How did he know that I had n't slept ?
8 How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary ?
9 How did you how d how did it arise that there was this degree of cooperation ?
10 And yo yo well how did you know that they 're ready to move then daddy ?
11 By the way , Uncle , ’ she added , ‘ how did you know that we 'd gone in ?
12 How did you know that it was his van ; there must be plenty of Mini vans about ? ’
13 How did you know that it was Matthew and not your son ? ’
14 How did you know that it was the right body ? ’
15 How did you know that I was still in the office ? ’ she asked carelessly .
16 ‘ How — er — how did you know that I lived here ? ’ she muttered as he led her inside the lift , reaching across to push the correct floor button .
17 But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ?
18 How did I know that they would say yes so readily ?
19 But I do agree that people out there must keep wondering how do they know that we are as , as it were , as slim as we can be .
20 How do we ensure that there is a much greater chance of catching those young men and adequately dealing with them ?
21 How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm .
22 ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’
23 Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ?
24 How do we know that there was an original crime of parricide ?
25 After all , how do we know that our own picture of Jesus is necessarily right , especially when we realize that we too bring assumptions to faith ?
26 Keith : [ Afro-Caribbean ( aggressively ) ] How do we know that it 's a joke , in my opinion that was a disrespectful thing to say .
27 But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ?
28 And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that .
29 ‘ More to the point , Chieh Hsia , how do you know that they 'll do as you ask ? ’
30 How do you know that your perceptions of the school match those held by others ?
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