Example sentences of "how he [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | and I do n't know how he managed to fit it in er but some people manage it erm it means that sometimes you , you know , you 're very time limited on , on , on writing things and you do n't put in something that you feel does justice to yourself , you know , you put in what you think of as crap and , and you know mm |
| 2 | I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me . |
| 3 | Unusual was n't it , how he 'd done it ! |
| 4 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 5 | That sweet smell , it was strange how he 'd recognised it . |
| 6 | How he had missed it , on its own in its distinctive folder , no-one understood . |
| 7 | He looked about him as he made his way through , horrified by the squalor , the ugliness of everything he saw , and wondered how he had stood it . |
| 8 | It seems that on reflection it was n't so much what Theo had said but how he had said it that had generated such despair and fury in him . |
| 9 | He noticed that the man was missing one eye and asked him how he had lost it . |
| 10 | And how he had pressed it on her ! ( pp. 258 — 9 ) |
| 11 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 12 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 13 | But since it has proved notoriously difficult for determinists to account for the emergence of new and revolutionary ideas , it would surely be wise of Althusser to show how he proposes to do it . |
| 14 | ‘ Anything she had , I had too , and it was thirteen years younger , and readily available to my husband as , when , and how he liked to use it . |
| 15 | I wonder how he 's done it is it |
| 16 | Of course , the truth about how he has done it will probably only emerge in a ghosted autobiography that will cost some newspaper a king 's ransom . |
| 17 | ‘ The question , ’ Benny interrupted , ‘ is how he intends to do it . ’ |