Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 2 | And er , if I was to put entries all the way across the top of this spreadsheet like this , and then , all the way across the bottom of the spreadsheet , do you know how I got to the bottom so quickly , by the way ? |
| 3 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 4 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 5 | ‘ You know how I went to the Moon the other day . |
| 6 | That 's how I came to be stuck and sweating , 60 ′ above the boulders ; feet flapping , nose snorting , musty sandstone , fingernails smearing lichen and a jammed knot placed blindly in the dark , keeping it all together . |
| 7 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 8 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 9 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 10 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 11 | To pinch a famous phrase , the road from Edinburgh to Sarajevo is a long one , and I am not sure how I came to be on it . |
| 12 | And the university provided them , greatly goosed on , I might say , by the then Vice Chancellor Aisa Briggs , who was very excited by the project , and that 's really how I came to be connected with the university . |
| 13 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 14 | How I longed to be able to reveal to the world that in the picture I depicted … a lighthouse . |
| 15 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 16 | I wanted to … oh God how I wanted to … ’ |
| 17 | This is an account of how I reacted to that very tall order . |
| 18 | It was certainly overt in Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) , with its surrealistic emphasis on machinery ( a Coke machine , a wheelchair , telephones , radios , computers , aeroplanes , bombs ) , culminating in the semi-mechanical yet sex-obsessed figure of Dr Strangelove ( Peter Sellers ) himself , whose rebellious mechanical arm keeps rising in a gesture at once phallic and fascist . |
| 19 | Some chapters ( written by Tim Madge ) just deal with Tracy and her family life that help you to see how she grew to be the strong character she became , making the book more personal than Fazisi . |
| 20 | She had no idea afterwards how she got to the Villa Alberti where Ferdinando took her to break the news and tell the tale of his fruitless trip . |
| 21 | She was curious to know how she looked to other people . |
| 22 | Chapters i and 4 examined , respectively , her political beliefs and how she came to the leadership of the Conservative party . |
| 23 | In part the style is an acknowledgement of how she came to the leadership , and in part also a reaction to previous leaders . |
| 24 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 25 | We began by asking her how she came to be in broadcasting . |
| 26 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 27 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 28 | Perhaps the best course was simply to come clean — to explain how she came to be involved in the case , and enlist Veronica 's help ? |
| 29 | ‘ And that was how she came to be at the reception ? ’ |
| 30 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |