Example sentences of "how [adj] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 2 | She saw that look come into his eyes again — the look that told her so clearly how little she meant to him . |
| 3 | Her voice and her looks told him exactly how little she wanted to be away from him , and his hands tightened as he rubbed his lips lightly against hers . |
| 4 | I was saying how odd it seemed to me that you did n't park your car in the twenty-minute car-park . ’ |
| 5 | She wrote , ‘ You ca n't imagine how strange it seemed to be journeying thus , without any visible cause for progress other than the magical machine , with its flying white breath and rhythmical , unvarying pace … ‘ |
| 6 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 7 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 8 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 9 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 10 | At the outset , you must first decide just how serious you want to be . |
| 11 | ‘ And when he was recovering from his sickness here in my house , I noticed how similar he looked to the girl 's face in the picture . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs Wallington , I ca n't tell you how amazing it feels to be here — in all this space-instead of shut up in Venice . ’ |
| 13 | But of course that can become quite a complex thing depending on how much we want to sort of use it to produce certificates and things like that . |
| 14 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
| 15 | When mistakes arose , the original Welsh workforce was never blamed ; when success registered , Laura appreciated how much she owed to them . |
| 16 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 17 | Yes , they realised how much he meant to the fans . |
| 18 | Police asked him how much he took to ‘ get a buzz ’ . |
| 19 | He was sensitive to this lack of recognition , but at the same time fully understood how much he owed to having been saved from the academic treadmill . |
| 20 | ( Dmitry did n't kill his father but he keeps baring his breast to people about how much he wanted to . ) |
| 21 | Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be . |
| 22 | That was when I realised how much you mattered to me . ’ |
| 23 | God only knows how much you mean to me ! ’ |
| 24 | Now do you see how much you mean to me ? ’ |
| 25 | All you have to do is complete the attached Standing Order form saying how much you want to be transferred and on what date of the month . |
| 26 | I needed to see his expression as he realized how much I meant to him . |
| 27 | I was aware how much I owed to their unobtrusive help ; several of them were my friends . |
| 28 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 29 | How much I owe to his continuing good health , that he should feel able and eager , at eighty-two years of age , to entertain poets and undergraduates and mathematical professors and political thinkers so early in the day , and to tell the anecdote of the Bust with his habitual fervour without too much delaying the advent of buttered toast . |
| 30 | And I 'll tell you one more thing , Mr Oh , so famous Vila , if you want to get rid of me , you ca n't begin to imagine how much I want to be rid of you ! |