Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , let him do it how he wants to Charlotte |
| 2 | I remember him telling me how he once broke up a fight outside a nightclub . |
| 3 | But now , talking to Joan , seeing her changing expressions , he asked himself how it had been so — apart from their dress , it seemed to him then that there was after all no strong likeness between them . |
| 4 | When I submitted our first Report to Mr Baker he asked me how he should explain what was meant by Standard English to the education journalists . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he told them how he had thrown the Bible , Mrs Wood gave a little scream . |
| 7 | He told me how you tried to rescue him . |
| 8 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 9 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 10 | He told me how he had had problems when young and had assumed that upon his marriage , he would break the habit . |
| 11 | I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women . |
| 12 | He told me how he worked his candy or piece of common-yard , dividing it into two by a path , and growing wheat on one side and vegetables on the other , changing over the crops each year . |
| 13 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope he told you how it goes on this same-day shit . |
| 15 | He told us how he was now ‘ older ’ and had received ‘ Our Father ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ He said he was representing nobody but Marie Wilson and he told us how he climbed out of the rubble in Enniskillen five years ago and somehow , through his daughter and his religious convictions , found the courage to say , ‘ Enough is enough , there must be a better way ’ . |
| 17 | He told us how he had been encouraged by the responses received from the agri-food industry ever since he threw out a challenge to it some four months ago . |
| 18 | ‘ He told us how he loved Leanne , but they had nothing in common . |
| 19 | He showed me how he gets his ‘ haze ’ effect . |
| 20 | Like a circus Hercules demonstrating how to tear up a telephone directory , he showed me how I too could dismantle a board with my mouth . |
| 21 | Has he told you how he 's intendin' to get here ? |
| 22 | He tells us how he cried and cried when he found out the Almighty Mozzer had slung his hook and f—ed off home for a veggieburger . |
| 23 | He asks me how I am . |
| 24 | Anxiously he bethought himself how he might get her in any way at all . |