Example sentences of "how he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If KC repeated ‘ girl ’ as ‘ curn ’ because that is how he heard it , he would not know his response was wrong . |
| 2 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |
| 3 | It was a strange letter , as Bill told me at numbing length how much he hated literary magazines , and how he knew I did as well . |
| 4 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
| 5 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 6 | Suddenly she realized how he saw her . |
| 7 | She wondered how he saw her — that was , if he ever gave her a thought , apart from in her official capacity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Was that how he saw her ? |
| 10 | Exactly how he saw it . |
| 11 | Of course , in her father 's estimation , it was not much of a house , a warren of smallish rooms was how he saw it , and set in a damp situation on the side of a river valley . |
| 12 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 13 | For that was how he saw it : |
| 14 | Erm he , he won the second world war in the Pacific and after the war he became emperor of Japan , well that was n't his title but that 's how he saw it . |
| 15 | And not a scruple in his head about how he gets it , I 'd guess . ’ |
| 16 | Cos he he really does it , I do n't know how he does it really , how he gets it all level like that . |
| 17 | I remember how he signed it because it sounded so impressive : ‘ T. Buckland Kettering ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Though how he managed it I do n't know . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , although I never quite understood how he managed it . |
| 20 | ‘ I was daft enough to say his plants looked healthy and I got the Ancient Mariner treatment ; a squirt-by-puff account of how he managed it . |
| 21 | So anyway she had the er settee and brought a friend with her with a well I think it was one of these Range Rovers that you can seat erm , you know , about seven and he dropped the seats down and got the settee in , I do n't know how he managed it . |
| 22 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 23 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 24 | Do n't ask me how he manages it but there is still an aura about Botham that intimidates even the finest player . |
| 25 | He reanimated these bones but we are not told how he brought them to life . |
| 26 | The saxophone took off again , Damian flicked her away from him , spun her back , and she was breathless with excitement , her body his to command — and how he commanded it ! — as Jerry Hall began to shout like a Spanish gypsy , while a harmonica came rolling in to harden the beat . |
| 27 | It was a question of how he believed he could best attain his major political purposes . |
| 28 | He wonders how he got it . |
| 29 | I did n't know how he got it up , it 's , it 's only thin |
| 30 | Oh how He hates it ! |