Example sentences of "how [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen .
2 Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth .
3 The reason why we 're less familiar with that is that we have a secret ballot and so there is no way of knowing how someone has cast their vote , and so there 's no way of effectively forcing someone to cast their vote one way or another .
4 I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’
5 ‘ I was once £400 lying in your bank account collecting interest — see how I 've grown .
6 I sit and think how I 've struggled to get a home together , and within a couple of minutes it 's all smashed up .
7 When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap .
8 ‘ I do n't know how I 've kept my hands off you , ’ he murmured , as his lips found the tender skin below her ear .
9 But it 's how I 've survived . ’
10 Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael .
11 That 's how I 've er that 's how I 've gone through life , my lad , that is .
12 That 's how I 've decided to approach my life here .
13 ‘ I do n't know how I 've done it .
14 see how I 've saved it all those years .
15 ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally .
16 Do you have any idea how I 've felt , weekend after weekend , knowing you 're crawling down muddy holes or chucking yourself off cliffs ?
17 it 's same with a Samsung , I end up sometimes putting it in the Toshiba one , to re-wind it back , but I 've had some funny tapes I have just lately , it 's the tape that wo n't re-wind , because how I 've noticed been the tape like , cos I 've put it in the Toshiba and re-wound , but it would n't even re-wind in the Toshiba , so Arthur says well he says that 's the tapes
18 ‘ Ye do n't know how I 've missed ye . ’
19 She longed to hear him say , ‘ God , how I 've missed you !
20 How I 've missed you , ’ he murmured as his hands slowly moved down her back and then traced the swell of her buttocks .
21 ‘ Jasus how I 've missed you , ’ he says .
22 I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’
23 I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’
24 Just as I never never let other girls see that I know I am pretty ; nobody knows how I 've fallen over myself not to take that unfair advantage .
25 I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life .
26 Well er I did n't want to be out of it or , awkward or off it or anything , if it was right , and I felt that it was right , I 'd adhere to that , whether or not , you follow what I mean , that 's how I 've lived me life , Michael , yes .
27 ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’
28 Well that 's how I 've got the corresponding dates .
29 ‘ He 's not coming back , ’ said Adam , ‘ to see how I 've discharged my duties . ’
30 Essentially that 's how I 've spent the rest of my life , to date .
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