Example sentences of "how [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How come he knows about you ? |
| 2 | How come you know about it ? |
| 3 | ‘ How come you knew about it ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you knew all that , ’ Mitch said , ‘ how come you worked for him ? ’ |
| 5 | But how d' ya feel about it once it 's repaired ? |
| 6 | And how came you to know of it , if it befell , as it seems , after you had left the Lord Owen ? ’ |
| 7 | Yet I do n't know how to wish her to stay with you for your own reputation 's sake , my dear son , for the world will censure as it lists . |
| 8 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 9 | How dared he speak to her so insultingly ? |
| 10 | How dared he speak to her as though she was some trollop with her eye to the main chance ! |
| 11 | How dared he laugh at her ! |
| 12 | How dared he talk to her as though she was some tramp ? |
| 13 | How dared he grin at her like that ? |
| 14 | How dared he come to his , Philip 's place , and act like a bird shooter . |
| 15 | How dared he look at her like that ? |
| 16 | How did ya get into it ? |
| 17 | So how did they react to you when you your mum and dad when you actually when you moved in here . |
| 18 | Erm , they give a complex number of cues , erm , when they are about to finish their conversation , erm , I how did they manage to it 's shown , it shown through the gaze of the speaker erm , erm , the speaker coming to the end of long actions has been shown to gaze heavily at the listener . |
| 19 | How did they know about us ? ’ |
| 20 | How did we go about it ? |
| 21 | And how did he come by thee ? ’ |
| 22 | He said , ‘ When she first started making the calls , how did she pay for them ? ’ |
| 23 | How did she feel about him ? |
| 24 | How did she take to you , Major ? |
| 25 | Well , how did she deal with it then ? |
| 26 | In the absence of any details it is difficult to assess the force of these references to biology and sociology … . ( 1 ) What , if any , were the false biological views in question ? ( 2 ) How did it follow from them that women could not be ordained to the priesthood ? ( 3 ) What are the views which have taken their place ? … . ( 7 ) Have the views about women which have now come to be held proved to be true ? |
| 27 | And then the idea ( how did it come to me ? ) that it must not simply be glass but big glass . |
| 28 | How did you feel about her ? ’ |
| 29 | How did you feel about it ? ’ |
| 30 | How did you distinguish between them ? |