Example sentences of "how [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
| 2 | Now there 's a new twist : how come we can know when a missile is even threatening to fall on Tel Aviv or Riyadh or Dharan , yet remain ignorant of when the next train will leave Waterloo station — or where it is heading ? |
| 3 | ‘ How come we suddenly need a cox ? ’ |
| 4 | If she was at a rave , how come we have n't had anything from the patrol cars about it ? ’ |
| 5 | The bloke do n't want to give them back , that 's how come we got involved . |
| 6 | How come we 're leaving ? |
| 7 | How come we have believed what we have seen and seen what we have believed ? |
| 8 | Er what 's it say how glorious er what 's it say about good news er , the feet , how come we are the feet of those who |
| 9 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 10 | Well ho is this is E and F , thirty three , thirty five , how come we got point eight five and point nine ? |
| 11 | A young man from the publishers told us how moved we were . |
| 12 | ‘ And what we know how to do we know how to do well . ’ |
| 13 | Do n't know how to do we ? |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't happen to realize how broke we are ? ’ |
| 15 | Specifically it suggests that something about how we respond , react to or construe the stressful situation has a lot to do with how stressed we feel , and how we feel stressed . |
| 16 | How did we get it all here ? |
| 17 | They included a two-volume guide to Shakespeare 's plays , an investigation into the authorship of the Book of Genesis , a commentary on the poems of Kipling and Byron , a biographical encyclopaedia of all the scientists who have ever lived , musings on music and humour and a series of informative books with titles beginning How Did We Find Out About … ? on subjects ranging from black holes and life in the deep sea to number theory . |
| 18 | How did we allow these destructive influences to kill our club ? |
| 19 | He examined the problems of ‘ How Did We Get This Way — And Where Are We Going ? ’ , arguing that since the last war Britain especially has presented management with a host of entirely new problems . |
| 20 | But if holism is true and the meaning of each sentence depends on the meanings of others , how did we do it ? |
| 21 | How did we get into the situation of today ? |
| 22 | that funnel right now how did we control the speed at which the acid went in . |
| 23 | Oh well how did we get on ? |
| 24 | ‘ And how did we get here ? ’ |
| 25 | How did we get this piece . |
| 26 | You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out . |
| 27 | How did we do it when we doing some of these back here ? |
| 28 | ‘ How did we get on to this ? |
| 29 | ‘ How did we manage to escape it ? ’ asked Fenella . |
| 30 | How did we go about it ? |