Example sentences of "he [verb] how [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were able to throw no end of different tasks at him to see how he responded to those . |
| 2 | And they took counsel and made a letter for the leader of the army of the Almoravides , wherein they told him that the Cid had made a treaty with the King of Aragon , whereby the King bound himself to help him against them ; and they bade him beware how he came towards Valencia , unless he chose to do battle with eight thousand Christian horsemen , covered with iron , and the best warriors in the world . |
| 3 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 4 | I 've heard him say how he went to sea and he done two voyages . |
| 5 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
| 6 | Had he guessed how she felt about him ? |
| 7 | He asked how it felt . |
| 8 | He asked how I felt and what I was most afraid of , I answered ‘ hitting the ground ’ - at least I was honest . |
| 9 | To this day , he wonders how she made out . |
| 10 | He wonders how he got it . |
| 11 | He described how they went outside , and saw the flattened port , and hundreds of bodies lying right around them , their exposed skin scalded , and he remembered the obscene and chilling stillness of it all . |
| 12 | He described how they heard a plane , and then came the searing flash and tempestuous roar , and then the utter unbroken silence of the grave . |
| 13 | On another occasion he described how he had ‘ once spent several hours on a bicycle with a friend in a serious attempt to discover the real spot but the search ended in failure though tourists assure me positively that they found it without difficulty ’ . |
| 14 | With more petulance then penitence he described how he had noticed Sean 's knife as the barman was called away to serve a customer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jerry Bailey typically articulate was being asked about his success on Ah Kong He described how he had moved alongside a European ridden horse . |
| 17 | He described how he had been contracted by the CIA to fly to Aguacate , a Contra base in Honduras with 28,000 pounds of military equipment . |
| 18 | Christopher Taylor blinked back tears as he described how he had arrived at the hospital to find his son , seven-week-old Liam , had suffered a mysterious collapse . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 21 | In one of his essays he says how he boasted to Stokowski that he had an engagement with Karajan in Berlin ! |
| 22 | There is still an abyss or several to be crossed , but the bishop was applauded with vast intensity as he told how he had demanded the release of the 150 people reckoned to have been arrested during the street fighting , and had been told that complaints of police brutality would be investigated if the names of the victims were submitted in writing to the authorities . |
| 23 | At his solicitor 's office in Camden , north London , he told how he had been arrested when about 15 police officers came to his rented flat at 6am one morning in January , nearly three months after the bombing . |
| 24 | BOYFRIEND David Harper choked back tears yesterday as he told how he left his lover and her twin sister to die in a midnight barn blaze . |
| 25 | He told how he saw 2 cars going up the road and had a strong feeling there would be an accident . |
| 26 | He choked back tears as he told how he waved her off from Heathrow , where he works . |
| 27 | Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings . |
| 28 | Here he describes how he took the Caribbean by storm |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | With somewhat unconvincing ostentation , given Gould 's ignorance of Latin , he describes how he coined the most appropriate name for this unusual species . |