Example sentences of "but how did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the youngest children , who were three years old , were well aware of the fact that appearance and reality were conflicting , but how did this knowledge reveal itself in their judgements about the distinction ? |
| 2 | But how did the public react ? |
| 3 | But how did he redeem you ? |
| 4 | ‘ But how did you come to go your separate ways ? ’ |
| 5 | But how did Charlie feel kissing and making love to one of the pop world 's latest idol , especially , as some on-set mischief makers suggested the two had got on so well , their celluloid games carried on into real life . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , yes , Wilson , but how did she seem ? ’ |
| 7 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 8 | But how did life begin ? |
| 9 | But how did it all begin ? |
| 10 | But how did your subordinate feel ? |
| 11 | But how did my father calculate the exact timing , or was he just lucky ? |
| 12 | But how did they come about ? |
| 13 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 14 | But how did the idea that sound might be suitable for microscopy arise ? |
| 15 | But how did such a subtle form of protection evolve ? |
| 16 | But how did it actually work ? |
| 17 | But how did you know ? ’ |
| 18 | And I said to him , ‘ But how did you know an antelope was there ? ’ |
| 19 | But how did she know ? |
| 20 | But how did primitive life-forms first appear on Earth ? |
| 21 | So Lemmy 's taken to America , but how did the Americans take to Lemmy ? |
| 22 | But how did they come about ? |
| 23 | … but how did they feel when the covers came off ? |
| 24 | ‘ But how did she know it was you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But how did she catch you that time ? ’ |
| 26 | But how did you pluck up the courage to tell the aunt ? ’ |
| 27 | But how did he rationalize doing the rubbish ? |
| 28 | But how did the Love God intoner develop ( which sometimes sounds like hell-marriage between Minneapolis ' Purple Glistener and a high-octane Barry White ) ? |
| 29 | She should have come over sooner , she should have spoken to Roy , but how did you ask a grown man about his home life ? |
| 30 | ‘ But how did you know about me ? ’ |