Example sentences of "how [adj] [pron] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the course , she stands out for her softly , rather than aggressively , spiked hair , a finish with the driver which , like Arnold Palmer 's , tells you precisely how much she has given to the shot , and an unusually generous attitude towards the opposition . |
| 2 | And at the end of it all , realising how much she has contributed to and gained from this greatest of all creative acts , she proclaims that she is Myself , Myself . |
| 3 | She wondered how much he had drunk to be explaining the trials of the journalist to her . |
| 4 | and er see how much I 've got to , lay it down then |
| 5 | It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water . |
| 6 | In doing so , they reveal how accustomed they have become to working with entrenched and unquestioned assumptions that such loss and decline is caused by age alone . |
| 7 | She looked down , realising just how keyed up he was ; how close he had come to snapping at her . |
| 8 | take on that job , you do n't have to be erm somebody who has knowledge about cloth , about way , the way things are made , the sewing , alright , how close it 's sewn to the edge |
| 9 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 10 | And how close she had come to stultifying it ! |
| 11 | All Folly could think of was how near she had come to losing him . |
| 12 | She felt faint when she thought how near she had come to disaster . |