Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pers pn] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 2 | As I struggled to follow her directions my natural curiosity overcame me and I asked her how she came to have all that wool and all those knitted garments which were obviously not for her . |
| 3 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 4 | And I er was talking to her down the lane when Mrs Monday and I asked her how she was and she said oh I 've had a few falls in the house and all . |
| 5 | ‘ He admitted in the end that he was suggesting the break for my sake , and I told him how I felt about that . |
| 6 | ‘ What 'd happen if I told them how you 'd cheated ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I tell you how it was , ’ Cullam said , ‘ you wo n't believe me . ’ |
| 8 | Wait till I tell him how you put down that old harridan . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now eat this while I tell you how I found you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Come here while I teach you how we fought in those days . ’ |
| 11 | When I ask him how he feels he is viewed by the medical profession these days , he replies , ‘ I used to be seen as someone who was totally way-out . |
| 12 | ooh , when I told her how I 'd been treated |
| 13 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |
| 14 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 15 | This is what she said when I asked her how she came to write the novel . |