Example sentences of "how they [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to see how they constructed a world view through the way they worked and what I wanted was irrelevant really . |
| 2 | Without a shred of evidence he had employed an innuendo when what he should have said was that any normal English person could not but approve of the sight of young English lads in their uniforms , and would naturally pause to observe how they played a game . |
| 3 | That 's how they got a man on the moon ! |
| 4 | and how they recognised a common truth |
| 5 | He described how they heard a plane , and then came the searing flash and tempestuous roar , and then the utter unbroken silence of the grave . |
| 6 | Jared Oysten , 11 , from Alderman Leach Junior School , and Victoria Grant , 10 , from Heathfield Primary were picked by the Mayor , Coun Rita Fishwick , after they had written essays on how they thought a mayor in the year 2000 would spend a typical day . |
| 7 | She describes how drugs were used , and how they organised a free open-air festival in Beckenham Park . |
| 8 | HOW THEY EXORCISED A GHOST TO SAVE DIANA 'S DAD |
| 9 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 10 | RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy . |