Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 2 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 3 | This is not how I 'd imagined it , I thought ruefully . |
| 4 | I thought it a bit off that she 'd never asked how I 'd got her pendant back . |
| 5 | How I had despised his brutishness then , and how I longed for his toughness , his uncomplicated , animal certainty now . |
| 6 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 7 | I looked at Robert 's painting , reflecting how I had spoiled my life : a life that I had muddied and bloodied and ruined . |
| 8 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 9 | How I had welcomed his physicality , his touch : the tiniest sensation that yes , it might be all right . |
| 10 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 11 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 12 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 13 | So that 's me got four and I 've got another five to do and I had a telephone call from field controller in Edinburgh last night and I really do think I do n't know how I managed to keep my tongue still . |
| 14 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's how I came to see them . ’ |
| 16 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
| 17 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 18 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
| 19 | He had all three and felt that at last the play was under way : this was why he had struck north ; this was why he had learned his part ( and God bless Major General Lake of Dumfries and God keep him there ) ; this was his great opportunity and ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed to himself , ‘ if it is true that You have love even for the worst of Your sinners and let Your Son welcome into Paradise the thief on the cross who by a single act redeemed a life of evil , then remember me at Hause Point , remember how I tried to obey Your will and how I saved that innocent young girl and help me here because I swear , if I succeed in my intention here , I will lead a life of charity and Christian duty to the end . |
| 20 | Her sister Clare , eighteen months her junior , described her as quote , a sister who seemed to be able do everything , she had a never ending social life , I was amazed how she managed to fit everything in unquote . |
| 21 | What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’ |
| 22 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 23 | Ella told me , that evening , of how she had lost her husband in a London blitz , when her house and all her personal possessions had been destroyed by a Nazi bomb . |
| 24 | How she had missed it . |
| 25 | He knew Katherine Lundy 's reputation in Dublin , knew what she was , knew how she had achieved her reputation there and how she had carved herself a slice of the London underworld . |
| 26 | She remembered with strange clarity the concentration she had put into cutting the flowers ; how she had hoped her father would think she had chosen the right ones . |
| 27 | Elizabeth , watching , felt an unexpected sympathy for her , remembering how she had felt herself , with baby Alan in her arms and him not even hers . |
| 28 | Up until yesterday , when the whole thing had taken shape and he had whisked her away to Rocamar , she had simply been his confidante — at least , that was how she had seen herself , and she 'd assumed that was how he saw her too . |
| 29 | That he thought ; sugared cakes , a block of cheese , would be all the more exquisite ; fitting — for how she had treated him . |
| 30 | Until now , the woman had been careful not to reveal how she had witnessed what passed between him and that lovely creature at the docks . |