Example sentences of "[vb past] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 2 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 3 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 4 | I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material . |
| 5 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 6 | In his affidavit , Mr Lightman said , Mr Duke described how £25,000 was paid into his bank account as a ‘ consultancy fee ’ and was later withdrawn in instalments and paid directly by Miss Jones — in cash — to Mrs Sutcliffe for the series of articles she had provided . |
| 7 | When Mr Graham first appeared in court reporting restrictions were lifted and Lorna Burns , for the prosecution , described how police arrived at the flats to find a man with a scarf around his face lying unconscious on the first-floor landing with a stab wound in his chest . |
| 8 | In his tribute at the funeral in Wellington on Thursday , the Right Rev Hapai Winiata , Assistant Bishop of Wellington , described how that made Keith Elliott a man who worked with people . |
| 9 | In a stimulating address , the Chief of the Air Staff , Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Harding enlarged upon his theme of last year , and described how it was planned to improve Service life . |
| 10 | The sentence comes from an essay called Eztetyke du Rêve , an eccentric spelling of Esthétique du Rêve ( ‘ Aesthetic of the Dream' ) in which , building on the idea that ‘ the dream is the only right which can not be forbidden ’ , Glauber Rocha described how he had come to realise the revolutionary importance of the mystical in Latin American popular culture . |
| 11 | He stood beside the broken glass of his front door as he described how the white neighbours — assisted by two West Indian girls — hauled him into the court and beat him . |
| 12 | In effect we have considered this already ( Chapter 2 ) when we described how delayed retiring times did not tend to be associated with longer sleeps ; it was a rising body temperature that curtailed sleep and over-rode any need for more sleep that might have existed . |
| 13 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 14 | Mr Usta , aged 34 , who lives with his wife , mother and three daughters in a shack in an Istanbul shanty town , described how he came to London last year , attracted by a newspaper advertisement offering money to kidney donors . |
| 15 | ATURKISH peasant farmer wept yesterday as he described how a Harley Street doctor had allegedly , under the pretext of giving him a blood test , ‘ stolen ’ his kidney to be used in a transplant . |
| 16 | ATURKISH peasant farmer wept yesterday as he described how a Harley Street doctor had allegedly , under the pretext of giving him a blood test , ‘ stolen ’ his kidney to be used in a transplant . |
| 17 | Witnesses at the trial described how Col Cabezas had urged his men to kill the unarmed prisoners . |
| 18 | In 1945 she was tried in a Chinese military court as a traitor , but was acquitted when she admitted her Japanese nationality and described how politically naive she was . |
| 19 | The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four . |
| 20 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 21 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
| 22 | In a letter to Minnie , who seemed the natural recipient of the account she wished to give , she described how — when first she was taken ill Minnie , which I expect you have heard of from Miss Arabel , who I dare say was given a terrible fright as were we all , many despaired of her life but I did not and I am pleased to say my faith was justified . |
| 23 | Dr Keith Wesnes , director of a drug research company in Reading , described how scopolamine can be used to induce the symptoms of the disease in healthy volunteers . |
| 24 | He described how using films covered with tiny grooves called riblets could save the world 's airlines billions . |
| 25 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 26 | Two are Of particular interest : one described how to cultivate the coconut ( see p. 39 ) and other seeds considered impossible to grow in this country ( Phil . |
| 27 | On another occasion he described how he had ‘ once spent several hours on a bicycle with a friend in a serious attempt to discover the real spot but the search ended in failure though tourists assure me positively that they found it without difficulty ’ . |
| 28 | He described how difficult it was to interest his seniors in this useful discovery . |
| 29 | Fortunately , however , they knew enough about Dawn 's condition to question the neurosurgeon closely when he described how Dawn would be fully conscious throughout the operation so that he could identify the damaged brain cells which were causing the spasticity , in order to destroy them . |
| 30 | A farmer 's wife giving evidence at the Otmoor M40 inquiry in 1983 described how she had once become completely lost in one of her own fields while counting sheep . |