Example sentences of "[vb past] how it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 3 | One Afro-Caribbean mother in my study , who was living on benefits with her partner , described how it was her grandmother who bought her daughter 's shoes , while her mother |
| 4 | Putting in a plug for his new book , Crashers , he described how it covers the major financial crashes in the world , starting with the 17th century tulip crash in the Netherlands , through to 30s banking crisis and the Deutschmark crash of the same period , to the stock market ‘ silver bubble ’ . |
| 5 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 6 | He recounted how it was his standard lunch time practice in the 60 's to rush to places such as Ifton Colliery , St. Martin 's , near Oswestry to photograph their railways and to chat to some of the characters who operated them . |
| 7 | Despite his overall fatigue and discomfort , Mark wore it proudly and explained and demonstrated how it worked to everyone involved in his care . |
| 8 | Despite his overall fatigue and discomfort , Mark wore it proudly and explained and demonstrated how it worked to everyone involved in his care . |
| 9 | After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg ! |
| 10 | Re-entering the cabin , she noticed how it smelled of them , of the mingled scents of their bodies , of the soaps they used , and the sweet , musky afterglow of love . |
| 11 | She made no effort to turn over , although she thought about it , imagined how it might be to lean on one elbow , to twist her body in a single movement . |
| 12 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 13 | A recent drama festival in Bihar , Central India , showed how it could be used to raise awareness about the region 's marginalised communities . |
| 14 | Instead , I wrote a short paper with Jan Moss in the same journal in which we pointed out this problem with the bubble and showed how it could be resolved . |
| 15 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 16 | Just before the alarm clock rang at five , I conceived how it might be done . |
| 17 | ‘ Well at least we established how it all started ’ he said . |
| 18 | They were therefore involved in negotiating the initial agreement of the statutory services for the project to take place in their areas , and in preparing the ground more fully so that all relevant service-providers knew about the project and understood how it might affect them or vice versa . |
| 19 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 20 | And she smiled at Raynor and saw him smile back , and felt renewed and restored , and understood how it was that Bec and the others came to Raynor for help . |
| 21 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 22 | In calmer moments , too , she understood how it was that Edward , though generous at heart , found it difficult to give way . |
| 23 | She saw how it was for the others : that they were suffering while we , fortunate as we were , had enough . |
| 24 | He said it softly , admiringly , and saw how it brought a movement in her eyes , a softening of her features . |
| 25 | We saw how it was with the plants and the seeds , and the birds and their eggs but the animals God made could not make nests and lay eggs , because they were so much larger . |
| 26 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |
| 27 | I heaved myself out , folded my own blanket , lifted the boards and sorted everything till it looked how it 'd looked last night . |
| 28 | If we knew how it was produced , for example not by moving a pencil round on one end of a taut thread , but along one fixed at both ends , we could conclude that it really is an ellipse and not a circle . |
| 29 | When he was forced to leave Arabia his sense of loss was enormous : ‘ As the plane … swung out to sea , I knew how it felt to go into exile . ’ |
| 30 | They knew how it should be used , and could doubtless be taught more and more about how to put this knowledge to good effect . |