Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] how a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it would n't hurt me to see how a gallery really functions , so I took the job . |
| 2 | ‘ Now it 's your turn , ’ he said , ‘ although I suspect I know how a woman gets to be an international model . |
| 3 | As I sat in the mouth of the cave looking out at the change in the weather , I wondered how a man in the Old Stone Age must have felt , staring out at the rain , knowing that if it did n't let up soon he 'd have to go out in it and knock a mammoth on the head for tea . |
| 4 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 5 | She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water . |
| 6 | You know how a man can say nothing and you hear it all over the house for weeks ? |
| 7 | You know how a contact can be lost . ’ |
| 8 | I mean you know how a lot of , a lot of these stories end , and the moral of the story is , etcetera , etcetera , etcetera ! |
| 9 | When you 've had an industrialist as a father and you know how a business works , you ca n't expect farmers to ignore every business principle to be Green . |
| 10 | Make sure you know how a piece of jewellery is intended to be worn . |
| 11 | It makes it much easier to understand how an advertisement appears in its appropriate medium , if you know how an agency works . |
| 12 | Writing in Inspire , Elizabeth Innes rightly says that the house-to-house collection is the least popular task of the Week , but she is also right when she tells how a word of thanks from a housebound person , grateful for the opportunity to give , compensates for previous rebuffs . |
| 13 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 14 | We consider how a computer program could support them , also what balance of teacher , pupil and program interaction might prove effective . |
| 15 | The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences . |
| 16 | ‘ We know how a building works on a shake table . |
| 17 | But however incompletely we understand how an airliner works , we all understand by what general process it came into existence . |
| 18 | And we explain how a legacy helps Save the Children . |
| 19 | In this first example we see how a teacher is able to initiate a sorting activity following a child 's chance remark . |
| 20 | In a study of the US agricultural equipment and chemical industries they show how a V-curve may be derived as illustrated in figure 5.1 . |
| 21 | Perhaps they know how a guitarist 's mind works : the more daunting something is , the more they want it . |
| 22 | Firstly they discuss how a consideration of the expressive and biotic orders can be linked to the social order and applied to the fields of study currently examined by more conventional urban sociology . |
| 23 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 24 | If this story is regarded as a plausible one , it illustrates how a theory can always be protected from falsification by deflecting the falsification to some other part of the complex web of assumptions . |
| 25 | Later he described how a car , driven by Mr Gooch had struck a kerb , swerved across the road , before being catapulted back again and out of site . |
| 26 | He describes how a road network is digitized and subsequently analysed using allocation , districting and routeing algorithms . |
| 27 | It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque . |
| 28 | In fact , the account is a lay , sociological' one : it describes how a system works and all those psychological states , which might be indicative of a prejudiced mentality , have no place in this system . |
| 29 | And now we 're sort of letting it run how a business would . |
| 30 | This is instructive because it shows how an explanation in terms of secondary causes is not perceived to exclude a customary reference to the will of a person . |