Example sentences of "how [adj] [pron] be [prep] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |
| 2 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 3 | But I 'll never forget how good she was to me all through the war , took so much off my hands when I just could n't cope . |
| 4 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 5 | Now you see how important it is to me ! ’ she cried passionately . |
| 6 | Apart from how kind he is to me giving me something so easy . |
| 7 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
| 8 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 9 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 10 | Can you imagine how bitter it is for me to have to write that sentence ? |