Example sentences of "learn [Wh adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's about time you you switched the heating and learnt how to do it . |
| 2 | I learnt how to occupy myself . |
| 3 | For the residential section , she travelled to Cumbria and learnt how to sail her first time on a boat . |
| 4 | I even learnt how to change his soiled coat . |
| 5 | We spent a lot of time outside on exercises , we had runs every morning in full combat kit which were longer and harder than the ones at Orange , we dug trenches , learnt how to camouflage ourselves and how to move across country at night . |
| 6 | From the thirteenth century European lapidaries conducted active experiments in cleaving diamond crystals and in learning how to shape them in ways best calculated to admit and reflect the maximum light ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 7 | Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood . |
| 8 | Parents may need help in learning how to ask their child to do what is required . |
| 9 | They discovered the secrets of the seashore before learning how to polish their finds at the Margrove Heritage Centre . |
| 10 | Hence the donkey work is taken out of learning how to set everything up . |
| 11 | But there 's a sense in which the teachers themselves are going to have to learn new skills , both in terms of the sheer mechanics of handling these devices , but also in sort of learning how to use them best in their actual teaching . |
| 12 | No she 's learning how to use it |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available . |
| 15 | So I do hope that you are taking notice and learning how to do your dates . |
| 16 | encouraged or put under pressure erm , I would think that with a lot more talking we might actually be able to work out something between surrogate mothers and nurturing mothers , they can do it with open adoption , other countries were learning how to do it . |
| 17 | DOS users know what they 're doing , have invested a lot of time and effort in learning how to do it , and do n't want the hassle of moving over to a new interface in order to do it differently . |
| 18 | Like anything else though , learning how to explore our bodies takes time . |
| 19 | By taking elements from the two and learning how to play them live together , it 's what I 'd call a real fusion . ’ |
| 20 | In addition , the poor horse has spent his first years learning how to balance himself and be able to charge round without tangling his legs up . |
| 21 | It 's worth learning how to write one well |
| 22 | Psychologists have legitimised this in the most peculiar ways : Sigmund Freud claimed that people who are not selfish enough are probably pathological , and therapists now urge us to ‘ actualise ourselves ’ in between bouts of learning how to assert ourselves . |
| 23 | What remained of the morning was to be spent acclimatising himself to the deaf-aid receiver and learning how to pace himself with the A.S.M. who was going to feed the lines . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years learning how to forget it , ’ she retorted edgily . |
| 25 | Yes , I do n't think it 's just diverting , again it 's great learning in finding out about what those children are experiencing , learning how to express it |
| 26 | They quickly learned how to use their snouts to lever edible roots from the ground , overturn grass tussocks for worms and locate resin ( pigs have a sweet tooth ) . |
| 27 | For instance , we did n't have yardage books when I started , and I learned how to use them . |
| 28 | I learned how to do everything . ’ |
| 29 | We all learned very quickly and we learned how to do it fairly quickly . |
| 30 | I soon became a man and learned how to do it properly … |