Example sentences of "[prep] how [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell him after how it went . ’ |
| 2 | Consider some simple examples from the University Farm at Bristol of how we fed our cows before and after the imposition of quotas . |
| 3 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 4 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 5 | ( The story of how we acquired 800 uniform boxes is too long and exhausting for this report , nut Bill Axford is the hero of that one … ) . |
| 6 | It is as though , in our theory of how we came to exist , we are allowed to postulate a certain ration of luck . |
| 7 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 8 | I ca n't think of how we got in . |
| 9 | I reminded him of how we 'd got rid of Abed without any unpleasant repercussions , but he could n't accept it . |
| 10 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 11 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 12 | The Times published a short report of how they died : ‘ Five German nuns … clasped hands and were drowned together , the chief sister , a gaunt woman six foot high , calling out loudly and often , ‘ 0 Christ , come quickly ! ’ till the end came . |
| 13 | TWO police officers who plucked a drowning two-year-old girl out of the River Thames told yesterday of how they thought the youngster had died . |
| 14 | A visit there on a warm , sunny afternoon yesterday , knowing something of how they met their end , made it easy to support the installation of a small plaque . |
| 15 | ‘ A cross between REM and richard Marx , but not as good as either , ’ is Fred 's grim confession of how they sounded . |
| 16 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 17 | Something that linked them , was a reminder of how they had got there . |
| 18 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 19 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 20 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 21 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 22 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 23 | The comments of one development officer may be taken as an indication of how they felt about their workers , and about what characterises a good support worker : Interviewer : |
| 24 | Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots . |
| 25 | The patient might tell you what if , if the casualty was still able to talk , they might be able to give you the history of how they became like they were , received a blow , got kicked , fell onto something hard , okay and so on and so on , they might be able to tell you themselves , give some indication , right , you would remove and loosen off all tight clothing , okay , loosen off the clothing for them and then treat them for shock and then refer them to urgent medical attention , nil by mouth on any account , okay ? |
| 26 | There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon . |
| 27 | The stories of how they got involved are typical . |
| 28 | If you walk in on any game you assess the relative positions of all the pieces — regardless of how they got there . |
| 29 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 30 | Get a sense of how they fitted into their circle of acquaintances and hear all the anecdotes and stories concerning them . |