Example sentences of "how i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 2 | because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be |
| 3 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But , ’ she added , ‘ would you like me to tell you what I do and how I come to be here ? ’ |
| 8 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 9 | ‘ You know how I went to the Moon the other day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 12 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | How I longed to be able to reveal to the world that in the picture I depicted … a lighthouse . |
| 19 | ‘ How I long to be at home and have some plain food . |
| 20 | While I was thinking how to respond , she said , ‘ Oh , how I long to be gathered ’ ( a Scottish euphemism for death ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I wanted to … oh God how I wanted to … ’ |
| 23 | This is an account of how I reacted to that very tall order . |
| 24 | ‘ Why ca n't you just let me live my life how I want to ? ’ |
| 25 | Do you know how I want to be the Prime Minister of next year ? |
| 26 | 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 . |