Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He wo n't know how to shiver in a week or two , " said Hawkbit , with his mouth full . |
| 2 | Prosecutors interviewed by the Polish daily Zycie Warszawy said they would not know how to deal with a case of illegal abortion as they had not yet received copies of the new law . |
| 3 | but erm and she thought I sha n't know how to deal with a girl at all |
| 4 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 5 | There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case . |
| 6 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 7 | She only learnt how to put on a bandage last month . ’ |
| 8 | In March they learnt how to react to an office accident and how to prevent such accidents . |
| 9 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 10 | Excitable children can have a similar effect , and so they may also have to be shown how to behave towards a puppy . |
| 11 | The SRC is to seek legal advice before deciding how to proceed with an election . |
| 12 | ‘ Unfortunately , being female does n't necessarily mean that I instinctively know how to behave as a mother . |
| 13 | The actual work was related to scientific observation , enquiry , recording as well as learning how to behave in a group . |
| 14 | It is not success in itself that matters , so much as the process of/earning how to create success , learning how to manifest our personal and global visions — learning how to live in a looking-glass world . |
| 15 | The socialisation process pupils encounter in schools therefore involves not only the acquisition of formally defined skills , but also the gaining of many other social skills , such as learning how to live in a group and how to respond to those in authority . |
| 16 | It 's also worth learning how to jump from a height so that you can get down again on the other side . |
| 17 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 18 | in a battle camp , you 're supposed to be learning how to fight in a war and basically they beat ya up , and in camp as well , it happens in camp too . |
| 19 | Near the end of the novel the clergyman is left ‘ … in strange Embarrassment , not knowing how to account for a Mind at once so enlighten 'd , and so ridiculous . ’ |
| 20 | They have become wildly popular , with their record sales and media profile , without knowing how to work with an audience , how to project , how to sell their performance or how to deal with their emotions on stage . |
| 21 | There were reminders in every cupboard and corner of how much she was missing Charles and how worried she was about this expedition to a country she knew nothing about and which she hardly knew where to find on a map . |
| 22 | F. These are some things most people think about when they are choosing where to go for a holiday . |
| 23 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 24 | Young people are being offered courses in baby-sitting , to learn how to cope in an emergwncy . |
| 25 | The Royal Air Force gave me emergency rations , advice on medical supplies , and a day at RAF Cranwell to learn how to navigate with a bubble sextant . |
| 26 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that a woman sleeps with a woman does n't mean she forgets how to sleep with a man . |
| 28 | I mean , the fact that a woman sleeps with a woman does n't mean she forgets how to sleep with a man . |
| 29 | Everyone knows how to sleep with a bloke , or they soon find out , but when do you hear about family planning ? |
| 30 | The truly empathetic New Man positions himself by the head of his partner 's bed , knows when to go for a walk in the park and , reverting to a traditional male role , protects the woman from unwanted intruders . |