Example sentences of "how [adv] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a string of boyfriends and no matter how badly she treated them there were always others lined up and waiting . |
| 2 | ‘ You can tell them how badly you want them to find Joe for you , then . ’ |
| 3 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 4 | I am afraid that the remarks of the hon. Members for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) and for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) about market forces only go to show how little they understand them . |
| 5 | But I suspect that if you confronted your past , you would be amazed at how little it moved you . |
| 6 | No matter how fiercely they attack him and his government — one deputy called for his impeachment yesterday — the conservatives have failed to mobilise their forces effectively . |
| 7 | But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming . |
| 8 | A public loan like that would have the added advantage of showing the Khedive what loyal subjects we Copts are and how greatly we admire him . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps now is an opportunity of thanking everyone for their generosity and to say how greatly I know it is appreciated by the charities and organizations concerned . |
| 10 | He threw off the pau and stood there over her , naked , seeing how eagerly she watched him now . |
| 11 | fine And how highly you regard us — And |
| 12 | And how highly you regard us — Oh , and |
| 13 | Souness said : ‘ Mike Hooper has signed a new three year contract and that shows just how highly I rate him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
| 15 | Most gardeners have their particular ‘ self-seeders ’ , plants that love their patch and which are categorised as flowers , wild flowers or weeds , according to how much we love them as they make their appearance each year . |
| 16 | In fact — and this is going to blow your socks off if you 've never thought about it before — God works out how much we love him by the way we treat other people ( including teachers ) . |
| 17 | Sometimes I wonder that she did n't collapse under the sheer weight of how much we needed her , of how unreasonably we all admired and needed her . |
| 18 | We are excited as a group in knowing God has called us to India but we realise how much we need Him in order for us to be effective . |
| 19 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 20 | Ideally , you will have come through this week and found that your liking for tea , coffee , chocolate , and cola is now influenced by how much they like you . |
| 21 | I wonder if those idiots realise just how much they frighten you and me … people who support a system because , in the end , the answers have to come through the system . |
| 22 | He promised me he would n't watch them again , yet I know he does , even though he knows how much they upset me . |
| 23 | I also get stopped by strangers on the street who tell me how much they enjoyed it . |
| 24 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 25 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 26 | De Tocqueville 's notes reveal not only the conscious opposition to such a mode of religious power but also how deep the solidarity between clergy and people was , the degree to which the poor , half the catholic population at the time , looked to the clergy for material and spiritual leadership , guidance , and assistance , and how much they trusted them . |
| 27 | Gaveston knew how much they hated him . |
| 28 | Then she remembered Peter telling her how much his brother liked women — and how much they liked him . |
| 29 | They left her feeling completely enclosed in a warm glow of attention and to Moran 's repeated questions over the next days were able to say genuinely how much they liked her . |
| 30 | ( Sorry , it 's got nothing to do with how much they love you . ) |