Example sentences of "[conj] how [pron] got " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 2 | After two pages , he would find himself , without quite knowing why or how he got there , making a cup of tea or watching the television . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know where , why or how he got that idea , ’ said 77-year-old Mr Hickman , recently honoured for 60 years of preaching . |
| 4 | 1 ) HOW PEOPLE TRADITIONALLY MANAGED TO LIVE IN THAT AREA & HOW THEY GOT FOOD , BUILDING MATERIAL , JOBS . |
| 5 | And I learned after a few weeks that how he got this was There was no weather forecast as we know them now you know on the television . |
| 6 | What the cracks were like and how they got there he did not say , but he did show that , if they existed , which was not unreasonable , they would account for the weakness of ordinary glass . |
| 7 | The intention is to present an empirical account of what things are like and how they got there before addressing bodies of theory which might help in understanding . |
| 8 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 9 | Quindly Quot used to tell the story of the Spiggies , their persecution by the Jingoes and how they got their revenge . |
| 10 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 11 | Miss Brechin , on being asked about this , suddenly recalled how cold the stone was , and how she got chilblains on her fingers in winter . |
| 12 | Right , now you 've said where you 've , where you 've lived before and how you got here erm now you 're on the phasing are n't you ? |
| 13 | Various fairly unscientific theories have been put forward over the years as to why and how it got there . |
| 14 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 15 | ‘ We shall treat this as a suspicious death ; there will be an autopsy and , of course , an investigation to discover the source of the poison and how it got into the brandy . ’ |
| 16 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 17 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 18 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 19 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 20 | ‘ Sir , you know we do , though how you got to know about them I ca n't imagine . ’ |