Example sentences of "[vb infin] how [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye do n't know how ye 've cheered me up . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 3 | Do n't know how they 've decided whose has got one . |
| 4 | I do n't know how they 've got the nerve actually , it 's quite terrifying just to watch it . |
| 5 | She did n't know how he had forced that admission out of her , she only knew it was something she had to say . |
| 6 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 7 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 8 | ‘ Apparently all he said was that he did n't know how he 'd died , but it looked unpleasant . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’ |
| 10 | I just , I ca n't wish , I do n't know how he 's stuck with fifty one years really do you ? |
| 11 | I do n't know how he 's stuck me |
| 12 | I do n't know how I 'd dared drive down them narrow roads |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know how I 've kept my hands off you , ’ he murmured , as his lips found the tender skin below her ear . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know how I 've done it . |
| 15 | ‘ Ye do n't know how I 've missed ye . ’ |
| 16 | Does he know how I 've changed , how ill I am ? |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll never know how I 've longed to hear you say that ! ’ |
| 18 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 19 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 20 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 21 | I do n't know how you 've lived so long ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know how you 've managed to carry all of this around with you for so long and still be a relatively sane , level-headed person . ’ |
| 23 | The girl , Lorna , announced her intention of applying for a transfer : ‘ I do n't know how you 've stuck it with her so long , I really do n't . ’ |
| 24 | He did n't say anything , but she could imagine the ranging of his thoughts — how he himself had tried to talk her into something , though he could n't know how she had stonewalled past the point where she knew what she was doing . |
| 25 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 26 | Even now , she did n't know how she had managed it . |
| 27 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |
| 28 | The authorities claimed that Jorge Quintana Silva was rearrested because he had contravened the conditions of his earlier release , although they did not specify how he had done this . |
| 29 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 30 | Her fans can see how she has managed it in Braveworld 's September 28 rental video release Family of Strangers . |