Example sentences of "and he [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he told how he was ordered to retrieve the plans from the woman 's home early the next morning . |
| 2 | Inside he knew he was very male : he wanted Carrie and he knew how he wanted her . |
| 3 | He got results , and he knew how to keep the boys quiet . |
| 4 | He felt his heart contract in pity , Emily was a fine woman , he admired her composure and he knew how much the facade must cost her , she had loved her father dearly . |
| 5 | And he knew how to treat her ankle , he was doing another soothing job on it . |
| 6 | Tactically he was superb and he knew how to handle his bowlers . |
| 7 | She was very young and he knew how much she loved him . |
| 8 | His equipment was state-of-the-art , though , and he knew how to write about sea-angling . |
| 9 | It was up to him to save her and he knew how to do it . |
| 10 | In any case , he knew who would be in Carrog — the women and children and those unfit for warfare — and he knew how quickly they would remove before him if he went near them . |
| 11 | And he knew how much I needed him to wind up the case . |
| 12 | Mr Christie said that he had had an association with the town for 30 years , and he knew how deeply many local people felt about the team . |
| 13 | But it did n't prevent her struggling , and he noticed how tiny her wrists were as he tightened the cord until it bit deep into her thin flesh . |
| 14 | Dahl focused upon the making of decisions over which there was an observable conflict of opinion and he studied how that conflict was resolved between the different individuals and groups involved . |
| 15 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 16 | He had it nocked , and the hemp half drawn back when an extra flare lit the sky , and he saw how close the man was to firing , and how ill he looked , and how young he was : a hollow-faced boy , defending the walls of Famagusta . |
| 17 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 18 | Jehan pondered the circumstances , and he saw how few alternatives there had been . |
| 19 | All the counterarguments flitted through his mind — the law of price and the business of supply and demand again — and he saw how impossibly incongruous they would sound in these circumstances . |
| 20 | She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up . |
| 21 | and he observed how the oaken doors |
| 22 | And he tells how none of the assembled guards and officials could look his father in the eye as he protested his innocence . |
| 23 | And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama . |
| 24 | and he goes how about music |
| 25 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 26 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 27 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 28 | Her body had soon regained its youthful shape and he marvelled how trim she looked . |
| 29 | Miller 's partiality for flowering shrubs is evident throughout his writing and among them perhaps the versatile roses offered him greatest scope : he appreciated the many aspects of this genus and he understood how they might be best displayed . |
| 30 | Sharpe suddenly feared the loss of Lucille and he thought how love made a man fearful and vulnerable . |