Example sentences of "i [vb past] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | My full interview seemed to go reasonably smoothly so at the end of it I asked how long would it take for my money to come through . |
| 2 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 3 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping . |
| 5 | I asked how the financial problems afflicting the charity had come about ? |
| 6 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 7 | I asked how things were now . |
| 8 | When I asked how many there were in her family she said seven , but that the young ones were at home , and did not mention her pregnant abdomen . |
| 9 | ‘ Two weeks after we were married , I asked how her pregnancy was going . |
| 10 | I asked how we were going to wake up because I for one did n't have an alarm clock on me , and he said , ‘ Always wake up when I want . |
| 11 | After making a good meal I asked how much I owed . |
| 12 | I asked how many they had — 8 , 11 , 16 . |
| 13 | The other day , when a new silver dinner service was commissioned for 10 Downing Street , I asked how much silver could be bought for a million pounds , which seemed a suitably round number . |
| 14 | I asked how long she had ? |
| 15 | When I asked how the Public Accounts Committee could examine what I regarded as gross excesses and a gross dereliction of duty by the Secretary of State for Transport , I was told — quite properly that the PAC could investigate only specific charges . |
| 16 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 17 | I asked how it happened . |
| 18 | I asked how much and this is it . ’ |
| 19 | I asked how many responses had been received because we knew , from the responses that we had received , that the vast majority of the people of Ayrshire are totally opposed to the opting out of Ayrshire South hospital . |
| 20 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 21 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 22 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 23 | Now I realized how over the centuries this window must have provided an incomparable panorama of the goings-on in the village . |
| 24 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 25 | As I caught his eye I realized how much I wanted to hold him in my arms again , and squeeze his rolls of fat . |
| 26 | It was only six months earlier , when I read his Lyrical Essays , that I realized how essential these Algerian summers are to an understanding of Camus . |
| 27 | Then I realized how absurd I was being . |
| 28 | I realized how much happier I would always be with Biddy than with Estella . |
| 29 | When I went to see Miss Havisham the next day , as she had requested , her house looked darker than ever , and I realized how lonely she was without Estella . |
| 30 | I realized how stupid I had been , and felt very sorry for the poor Struldbrugs . |