Example sentences of "how [adv] he [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Helmsley did not say how long he planned to keep his buildings in mourning , but his wife is expected to be in jail for at least 19 months before she is eligible for parole . |
| 2 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
| 3 | It was sudden , ’ he murmured blandly , but she noticed that he did n't comment on how long he 'd known him . |
| 4 | She had no idea how long he intended to keep her here . |
| 5 | How long he has to wait he does n't know . |
| 6 | She had driven herself on and on , trying to keep her thoughts painless , trying , without success , to think of anything except how badly Luke had hurt her , how easily he had destroyed her life . |
| 7 | Now though she stifled that feeling and gave herself up to the joy of being in his arms and hearing how long and how deeply he had loved her . |
| 8 | And without giving him the satisfaction of knowing how deeply he had hurt her . |
| 9 | Jackie wondered how often he had eaten himself to sleep alone in rooms like this and if he had seen much more of Mr Harker than Evelyn , his supposed sister , had . |
| 10 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 11 | He rang off , and Harold thought how well he had taken it . |
| 12 | A manager is accountable to his superiors in the organisation for his actions and he is obliged to report to his superior how well he has exercised his responsibility and the use of the authority delegated to him . |
| 13 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 14 | One : decide what the playwright was trying to do and pronounce how well he has done it . |
| 15 | Prod him , and he will start to tell you how hard he worked to make his low-budget block-buster . |
| 16 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 17 | And how sadly he had missed her , lacking the unworthy symbol she had deigned to make worthy . |
| 18 | Only now did Jessamyn realize just how completely he had transformed himself . |
| 19 | How completely he had humiliated her . |
| 20 | How well , how wonderfully he had loved her . |