Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] how [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was not until she came round from behind the reception desk that I realised how huge she was . |
| 2 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
| 3 | The thing that made me a little envious was this girl — she 's his assistant on this particular film — ringing up , and there was a slight chance they would be going to Switzerland that day , and suddenly I was in there again and I thought how exciting it all was and how nice it would be to go off filming again . |
| 4 | My knee brushed Doris 's , once , twice , and I thought how wonderful it was when two young people started falling in love . |
| 5 | It was quite a shock , and I thought how lucky I had been never to get into a violent argument with him while he was carrying the clubs . ’ |
| 6 | The big thermometer on the refuge wall read zero degrees C , and I recalled how cold it had been the night before during our four hour drive from Madrid . |
| 7 | Elinor [ sic ] Roosevelt had just died and I said how beautiful I thought the message Adlai Stevenson gave to the world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I felt sure I would never see poor Glumdalclitch again , and I knew how sad she would be to lose me . |
| 10 | I am a business man and I knew how marketable he was . |
| 11 | And Dr Neil and Matey — Miss Mates — taught me so much about … life … so much that is useful … and I learned how hard it is for most people to live even halfway decent lives … and now I am home again . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd never read it but I knew how much I could have sold it for . |
| 13 | She apologised for the mess , wiping her hands on her apron and then shaking my hand while I said how sorry I 'd been to hear . |
| 14 | When I said how much I had enjoyed his performance in the title role in Uncle Vanya , he snorted , ‘ Oh , did you . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |
| 17 | You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’ |
| 18 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |