Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd like to see how I looked teaching rather than how I thought I looked . |
| 2 | The front area of the house , including our bedroom , was dry , and how I wished I could lock myself in there and pretend the rest was n't happening . |
| 3 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 4 | How I wished I 'd stayed there ! |
| 5 | How I wished I had n't left my camera at home . |
| 6 | ‘ If I knew how I meant I should n't be asking you to design it , because that 's what design is , knowing how you mean . |
| 7 | To the melody of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes , the winner wrote an anti-opinion poll ditty that began : They asked me how I crossed I just said ‘ Get lost ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I do n't know how ye found me . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , I think that 's how she struck me . |
| 10 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
| 11 | When my father died there were a lot of quarrels between my mother and I. I 'd always lived with my father , so I did n't know her , or how she wanted me to be . |
| 12 | ‘ We-ell whoops a daisy , how you drove me crazy , ’ sang Nick , pirouetting and waving the bottles in the air , ‘ but I guess it does n't matter anymore . ’ |
| 13 | And you helped my family — that 's how you persuaded me so cleverly . |
| 14 | I do n't understand what it is you want , or what you have to do with Spiderglass , or even how you got me away from them . |
| 15 | If anyone asks how you treated me , I will tell them the truth , that you were very cruel to me . |
| 16 | I have n't forgotten either how you rescued me from that drunken Scot in Champers a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 17 | How you frightened me — I … ’ she said , looking glad , shy and surprised at the same time . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you remember , baby , last September how you held me ti-ight each and every ni-ight ? ’ , they sang as the back door opened and Nick came in , a bottle of wine in each hand . |
| 19 | But there 's still the question of how they knew I would be there at the pay-off . |
| 20 | And — and many men in this situation would not care how they used me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know how they found me . |
| 22 | Yeah but look how it fitted me when I bought it . |
| 23 | Ca n't you understand how it riled me ? ’ |
| 24 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
| 27 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 28 | A ho how he thought I was going to move it I do n't know . |
| 29 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 30 | I think he 's spoken to you about me , and I 'm sorry he considers me to be unreliable : happy-go-lucky was how he described me , I imagine . |