Example sentences of "[vb base] how i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I think they realise how I feel and this has broken the ice . ’ |
| 2 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 3 | Behold how I lay down the great weight of sorrow I have carried with me so long . |
| 4 | Then they watch how I react . |
| 5 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 6 | ‘ I recall how I refused to hearken to the queen my mother 's fears for my brother 's safety — yet now I myself fear greatly for him ! ’ |
| 7 | Look how I write you this letter ! |
| 8 | Look how I put that microphone . |
| 9 | ‘ Look how I gave all that up for Bernard ! |
| 10 | My husband was n't nice to me and look how I turned out ! |
| 11 | He had all three and felt that at last the play was under way : this was why he had struck north ; this was why he had learned his part ( and God bless Major General Lake of Dumfries and God keep him there ) ; this was his great opportunity and ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed to himself , ‘ if it is true that You have love even for the worst of Your sinners and let Your Son welcome into Paradise the thief on the cross who by a single act redeemed a life of evil , then remember me at Hause Point , remember how I tried to obey Your will and how I saved that innocent young girl and help me here because I swear , if I succeed in my intention here , I will lead a life of charity and Christian duty to the end . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 13 | ‘ Marcus , I 'm sorry , I 'm not angry , how could I be , I regard you as — you know how I regard you — I just do n't want you to waste your time with those old mythological thoughts . |
| 14 | She 's a liar , and you know how I hate liars . |
| 15 | I 'll have to do something about him but you know how I hate scenes . ’ |
| 16 | You know how I longed — and long still , for that matter — to be an actress . |
| 17 | You know how I take Tetracycline quite regularly |
| 18 | ‘ I think you probably know how I felt about Christine . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Now you know how I felt every time I saw you with Adam , hugging him to you as if you were a bosom friend . |
| 20 | I said , now you know how I felt ! |
| 21 | ‘ You know how I said you could save me and only you . |
| 22 | You know how I said you could never see one — because it does n't give out any light ? |
| 23 | ‘ You know how I went to the Moon the other day . |
| 24 | ‘ We all know how I led Norman astray . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So you need to know the objects you 're dealing with , then differentiate them , then when you 've differentiated them when you 've differentiated them you can work back and you think , Ah I know how I got that . |
| 27 | You know how I served your father , and let him live . |
| 28 | You know how I loved your sister , and made her die . |
| 29 | Only you and I know how I survived . |
| 30 | You know how I need a bit of comfort in the night . |