Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he told how he was ordered to retrieve the plans from the woman 's home early the next morning . |
| 2 | Inside he knew he was very male : he wanted Carrie and he knew how he wanted her . |
| 3 | She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up . |
| 4 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 5 | And he tells how none of the assembled guards and officials could look his father in the eye as he protested his innocence . |
| 6 | Miller 's partiality for flowering shrubs is evident throughout his writing and among them perhaps the versatile roses offered him greatest scope : he appreciated the many aspects of this genus and he understood how they might be best displayed . |
| 7 | Eventually he found all forms of religion involving ‘ externals ’ and ordinances unsatisfying , and he describes how he became aware of the sufficiency of a personal and inward inspiration ‘ ( as one inspired with a supernatural life ) sprang up farr above my earthly center , into a most heavenly and divine enjoyment ’ . |
| 8 | He remembered that Suragai had said that on most worlds men did not ride , and he wondered how they managed . |
| 9 | Yanto looked a little crestfallen , and he wondered how his Mother had fared with Sid Watkins . |
| 10 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 11 | Lorton had n't been to confession for 25 years , but he remembered how it felt . |
| 12 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 13 | He could see them himself , for that matter , but he wondered how she could . |