Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 2 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |
| 3 | so I got , I got to know how to use them by then then then erm while I 've got older dad got another piece of ground what he 's given up now |
| 4 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 5 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 7 | Now if I 'd said how about if you had erm sixty add sixty do you think you could do that ? |
| 8 | Forty minutes later my neck was long , my hips were free , my knees were out , my back was wide and I 'd learned how to sit down . |
| 9 | She was cheerful , too ; I 'd forgotten how happy she could be . |
| 10 | I 'd forgotten how funny it is ; from now on I shall be using it in casual conversation more often . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd forgotten how loud and exhausting she could be , ’ remarked my mother later as I peeled the potatoes . |
| 12 | ‘ But I 'd forgotten how tired I was . |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten how good it is — ’ She stopped , grimacing . |
| 14 | It 's ages since we played this game , I 'd forgotten how clever at it he can be particularly when you 're not ! |
| 15 | Each time I 'd wondered how they carried such a heavy load : how the pine-needles even stuck together , bound as they were with a single length of rope . |
| 16 | If I 'd known how important it was about the house — I did n't understand until I got your note . |
| 17 | I could tell you offhand , if I 'd known how , where the race was or there 's not many places . |
| 18 | I 'd have been a lot more worried if I 'd known how much it was going to be … |
| 19 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 20 | I began to wonder how many of them would buy Tremayne 's book . |
| 21 | I began to wonder how much of our knowledge of Roman Britain depended on such figments of the imagination — a depressing thought ! |
| 22 | I began to see how the literature I revered , the literature I loathed , behaved in its encounter with racial ideology . |
| 23 | I began to see how different Houy life was from what I was used to . |
| 24 | I began to see how they constructed a world view through the way they worked and what I wanted was irrelevant really . |
| 25 | But , playing through the amp , I began to realise how daft it was sitting up in my bedroom by myself with it , trying to work my way through tunes . |
| 26 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 27 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 28 | I was like a Lilliputian in Europe , and I began to understand how a very small creature feels . |
| 29 | I began to understand how , if I were his wife , this good , religious man could soon kill me , without feeling any guilt at all . |
| 30 | So I began to think how I could write a crime story that did not have a British setting . |