Example sentences of "i [vb base] how [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When d' you meet any real people apart from those limousine sharks and cordless telephone freaks who never met an ordinary person , do n't know any ordinary people : how they live , we live , nor how we die , I mean how they die . ’ |
| 2 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 3 | I mean how they ch the fact they choose to sub-contract out to me is one thing , yeah , I mean that 's their problem in that sense . |
| 4 | I mean how he even got to be a broker I never understood . |
| 5 | I mean it is , I mean how you explain it is erm by no means straightforward . |
| 6 | Yes but I mean how you say if they 'd played their cards right , but are you saying just go down there and say to him ‘ get off ? ’ |
| 7 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 8 | I forget how we learnt that he was coming under its auspices , but I do remember that our wish — that is to say , the wish of myself and Michael Cullis , by then an established friend — to entertain him during the visit , produced a minor clash with the English Club secretariat . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 11 | And they , if you go to it , I forget how it is , but that 's how Jane 's is , so |
| 12 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 13 | I watch how they smooth their hair when enter a room . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 16 | I have spoken with Sendero , I know how they are thinking . |
| 17 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 18 | I know how they talk , out in the provinces , with that mixture of fake self-confidence and real fear : ‘ Go to Pradier 's , my boy , you 'll always find some little actress there to be your mistress , and grateful she 'll be too . |
| 19 | I know how they feel . |
| 20 | Gray said : ‘ I know how they feel , particularly after two great championship seasons . |
| 21 | Cos I 'm a bit worried we got ta get things sorted out so I rang I said I did n't to get onto you , she said no I know how they feel she said her granddad always do things like that . |
| 22 | I know how they did that as well . |
| 23 | ‘ I know how we could settle this , ’ said one of the girls . |
| 24 | Because then , you just look at it and say , Ah I know how we got here , that reminds me of that one I did the other week where it came out looking like this . |
| 25 | I need , I need to have to give , I know how we feel but he 's getting older |
| 26 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 27 | I know how he interpreted it and I have told him so often about how it was . |
| 28 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 29 | Now I know how he must have felt . ’ |
| 30 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |