Example sentences of "i [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked how we were going to wake up because I for one did n't have an alarm clock on me , and he said , ‘ Always wake up when I want . |
| 2 | ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping . |
| 3 | ‘ Two weeks after we were married , I asked how her pregnancy was going . |
| 4 | I asked how it happened . |
| 5 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 6 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 7 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 8 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 9 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 10 | Er and on the basis of your knowledge I mean , in terms of the flats , when you 've s you 've been there f er and also you 've erm worked with some of the tenants that have been down here , I mean how what do you think er in terms of the living conditions , I mean how er in the flats , I mean how do they , how do you see them ? |
| 11 | I mean how what other evidence |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I mean how he even got to be a broker I never understood . |
| 16 | I mean it is , I mean how you explain it is erm by no means straightforward . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Afterwards , too late , I realized how I should have used my twenty-two seconds . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Not since I realised how it was reared , think of shutting out the daylight all their lives . ’ |
| 22 | Have I forgotten how nobody really cared , how nobody really knew him ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And they , if you go to it , I forget how it is , but that 's how Jane 's is , so |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 29 | In my last comments I mentioned how everyone can influence our performance in the Division . |
| 30 | In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text . |