Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am learning how identity , prestige , past victories can flake off a woman as she steps across her threshold , a sheaf of hardware supplies bristling like gladioli in her arms . |
| 2 | ‘ I was trained to see behind enemy lines , ’ Mr Aggarwal told me , ‘ and I am knowing how to observe properly . ’ |
| 3 | I am wondering how I can decorate the tank without using up too much space . |
| 4 | On the contrary , I am wondering how I may reward you … |
| 5 | Mum-of-two Jane , 29 , of Cleethorpes , said : ‘ I 'm baffled how anyone could have ignored his lorry for three days . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'm learning how to say ‘ No ’ now . |
| 7 | I take a bus but er I 'm learning how to drive now because I think it gives you a lot of independence . |
| 8 | Tony Benn to Jimmy Young when asked about Neil Kinnock 's Radio 2 debut I 'M asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything , and I say I try not to laugh . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything and I say I try not to laugh . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm saying how much I hate you , just all the time . |
| 11 | so this is what I 'm saying how come that the she 's still got the poll , we have to , got to pay poll tax at that rate because she 's not working |
| 12 | That 's what I 'm saying how did he knew that |
| 13 | I 'm wondering how you 'll manage to fit it in with your work and family matters , er all the time that you 'll need to do this , |
| 14 | Now I 'm wondering how easy or whether there 's any mileage in actually having a report coming to our next committee , to actually build on that so that we 've actually got something to pull on figures to consider erm , and if , and it , it is going to detrimentally impact upon us to a greater or lesser extent , then , then obviously it 's helpful to me . |
| 15 | But I 'm wondering how to go on it being election day . |
| 16 | I was taught how to deal with the medical post , and how to file patients ' records . |
| 17 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |
| 18 | While I was thinking how to respond , she said , ‘ Oh , how I long to be gathered ’ ( a Scottish euphemism for death ) . |
| 19 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I was thinking how very unpleasant it must be to be shot . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was grinning , ’ I said , ‘ because I was thinking how lucky I am to know you two . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If you really want to know , I was thinking how much I hate crowds , despite the fact that my job involves a lot of travelling . ’ |
| 23 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 24 | You know on Saturday , er it was when I was thinking how about a , you know , cos we were thinking of going shopping in the afternoon |
| 25 | I was asking how you enjoyed school . |
| 26 | I walked suddenly faster on the railway station as if I was testing how closely he kept up with me . |
| 27 | I was observing how difficult it was to arrange a day on the crags with a mountaineering celebrity when the weather is warm and very wet . |
| 28 | There , in a quiet street in Mitcham , I was to learn how they get nuts . |
| 29 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
| 30 | I was saying how odd it seemed to me that you did n't park your car in the twenty-minute car-park . ’ |