Example sentences of "[verb] how [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 2 | for Linlithgowshire and younger brother to the Earl of Hopetoun , made his attack : Crump surrendered instantly , taking up Hope 's opening words by explaining how he had met Mr Newton , or was it Wilson ? — the honourable gentleman 's Factor in Preston , was it , my dear ? |
| 3 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 4 | Tennyson explaining how he came to write the Idylls of the King is another . |
| 5 | The lyrics are pretty much standard , if mild , slackness , a typical ragga-gruff voice explaining how you 've got ta be a top shag to please a girl . |
| 6 | One occasionally comes across a man who is almost a recluse and one wonders how he manages to make a living for he does n't seem very interested in doing so . |
| 7 | Huy could see no mark on the body to indicate how she had died . |
| 8 | Say how you intend to approach ) tackle the question . |
| 9 | Both Betty and Lydia found this odd and wanted to know how they 'd managed . |
| 10 | He did not want his girlfriend to know how he had deceived her with another woman . |
| 11 | He describes an extraordinary incident when , after top police officers had left , other men involved in the torture spoke to him , wanting to know how he had resisted . |
| 12 | They were burning to know how he had got on in New York , and Isobel asked him . |
| 13 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 14 | Local reporters were keen to know how he managed to carry out his civic duties , to which Mr Snyder replied blithely that fellow committee members sat beside him during screenings and gave a running commentary ‘ to fill me in when the screen goes silent ’ . |
| 15 | they want to know how it 's spoken and that . |
| 16 | Besides I want to know how she has grown . |
| 17 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 18 | But I had not forgotten how she had lied , and behaved so badly to me as well as to Edgar Linton , so I did not feel sorry for her , or encourage her to talk . |
| 19 | He had long forgotten how he had despised the old man for being mean and ignorant . |
| 20 | You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion . |
| 21 | She described how they had carried their water in those sheepskins , which they call jerbah . |
| 22 | Police eyebrows were raised when they described how they prayed sitting quietly in a circle . |
| 23 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 24 | The aide , Masahisa Haibara , described how he had handled $500 million yen ( US$1.00=123.642 yen as at Dec. 14 , 1993 ) in undeclared cash donations on behalf of Kanemaru 's office . |
| 25 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 26 | With more petulance then penitence he described how he had noticed Sean 's knife as the barman was called away to serve a customer . |
| 27 | Still detached from the actual sensations , she described how he had gone under the water and then come to the surface again several times before finally drowning . |
| 28 | Rapidly he described how he had gone to the paper with two missions that Friday afternoon : to deliver his column to Tavett and to tackle MacQuillan about the increasing anger among the print unions . |
| 29 | Jerry Bailey typically articulate was being asked about his success on Ah Kong He described how he had moved alongside a European ridden horse . |
| 30 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |