Example sentences of "how [det] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 32 | To ask an ordinary person how many times they have visited the cinema during the past year is probably unfair for all except a small number who can quickly say ‘ never ’ or else ‘ regularly once a week without fail ’ . |
| 33 | And no matter how many times they asked the girl , no matter how many different ways they approached it , her story was always the same . ’ |
| 34 | So we ca n't decide , as regardless of how many times they claim , we ca n't say , enough 's enough , we 're not gon na honour the contract any more . |
| 35 | Having to count how many times they have hit the horse and then decide to give it one more is ridiculous . |
| 36 | How many times they get it wrong ! |
| 37 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 38 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 39 | I have lost count how many times we have done this . |
| 40 | We might turn away from our own particular church — we might go through a period of not knowing what we believe in — we might change from being a Catholic to a Buddhist or from a Jehovah 's Witness to an Anglican ; but , no matter how many times we reject religion , we know it will never reject us . |
| 41 | Her self-esteem is visibly low — no matter how many times we tell her you 're just not worth it . |
| 42 | I once counted how many times my daughter Emma said , ‘ Mummy , I want some orange juice ’ . |
| 43 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |
| 44 | I do n't know how many times my husband has attempted a three-D backdrop effect before , but this method , with its spot-on diagrams , worked first time . |
| 45 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 46 | I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty . |
| 47 | ‘ You know very well how many times I 've asked to see you , speak to you . |
| 48 | ‘ American lady , I want my prick in your mouth for two hours : never mind how many times I come . ’ |
| 49 | But you ca n't imagine how many times I 've thought , ‘ If I 'd kept him , he might have lived . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ I could n't count how many times I 've fallen down ! |
| 51 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 52 | But in the depth of Winter say , er from November up to after Christmas , there were very very few things you could notice and erm goodness knows how many times I fell back on he was one of the last persons to be churning with horsepower . |
| 53 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 54 | You 've no idea how many times I 've willed myself not to say that — and won . ’ |
| 55 | I do n't know how many times I have to say , that we 've we 've been there and we know all about this . |
| 56 | Well you see you do n't even know what chapter , I mean you know re rewind that recording , I 'm sure it 'll there 'll be evidence on that on how many times I said Chapter eleven , question . |
| 57 | Literally quarter past eight when the I mean oh god knows how many times I went in there . |
| 58 | . You know what I do n't know how many times I 've stripped that down . |
| 59 | How many times I just do n't understand . |
| 60 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |