Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] how [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 3 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 4 | Only you and I know how I survived . |
| 5 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 6 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 7 | And I wondered how he deduced you know , how he got this . |
| 8 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | In my professional work , I repeatedly have conversations with educated clients — especially male clients — which go something like this : " Yes , yes — you 've told me what you think , and what you did , but I wonder how you felt ? " |
| 11 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 12 | I knew there were no flies on her but I wondered how she 'd found that out . |
| 13 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |