Example sentences of "how [pron] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how I 've done it . |
| 2 | see how I 've saved it all those years . |
| 3 | They say that it 's the poor that helps the poor and that 's how I 've found it goes quite honestly . |
| 4 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |
| 5 | This is not how I 'd imagined it , I thought ruefully . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's how I plan to keep it at the moment . |
| 7 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 8 | I thought it essential to set out a full precedent for both the agreement and lease , so that readers could see the complete documentation and how I propose to amend it . |
| 9 | The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people . |
| 10 | Yeah well it 's always strange is n't it how nobody manages to do it and yet it 's always |
| 11 | How she had missed it . |
| 12 | I had no idea of course how she had received it , and was therefore pleased to receive a letter a week later from her private secretary , Sir Martin Gilliat . |
| 13 | This was n't how she had planned it — not that she had really planned anything , but she had pictured herself , cold and ferocious , confronting him , shocking him with the knowledge that he had virtually killed her brother . |
| 14 | She could n't imagine how she had allowed it to happen when everything within her head warned against it . |
| 15 | How she had managed it , God knows , except perhaps that beautiful and exciting women dropping in out of the blue at the bottom of the world were not very plentiful . |
| 16 | Even now , she did n't know how she had managed it . |
| 17 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 18 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 19 | I know how she 's done it , yeah |
| 20 | How she wanted to wipe it from his face ! |
| 21 | Her fans can see how she has managed it in Braveworld 's September 28 rental video release Family of Strangers . |
| 22 | But she could only see little Gabriels , wearing small red anoraks and sporting hair that stood on end no matter how she tried to brush it down . |
| 23 | Their mother seemed to rally as she always did for her children but no matter how she tried to conceal it , it was clear to all of them that she was near the end of her strength . |
| 24 | Without him some of the magic had gone from her life and the dullness encroached into her work , no matter how she tried to compartmentalise it . |
| 25 | You can also see the direct effects of this obsession on his victim , and how she tries to combat it . |
| 26 | I said that 's how you got to do it and then I come round and pick them up when |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | take it and that 's how you 've got it out , and I want |
| 29 | Introduction — in which you say how you interpret the question and how you intend to tackle it . |
| 30 | It tells you what you want to avoid but not how you intend doing it . |