Example sentences of "how did [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SO HOW did they break the news to a joyful populace , eagerly waiting to hear the outcome of Margaret Hilda versus The Fossil ( © the Sun ) ?
2 How did they make the stuff hold all that water ?
3 How did they choose the firm ( eg the reputation of the firm , of a practice area , or of a particular lawyer ; personal association ; referrals from current or former clients , or professional agencies ) ?
4 What did the Ministry expect , how did they think the men would react ?
5 did erm on race days , how did they organize the races ?
6 How did they alert the firemen on at the station ?
7 How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators .
8 How did they get the message down to the port here that a boat would be coming in ?
9 Now just how did they get the skates to do that ?
10 ‘ And how did they get the car across here ? ’ asked the Substitute , slowing to put a flame to a freshly filled pipe .
11 Who sent these orders and how did they cross the Forth ?
12 that funnel right now how did we control the speed at which the acid went in .
13 But for the other versions , the questions would be : ( 9 ) how did he paint the general ? how does she want to play the character ?
14 The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ?
15 How did he handle the questions ? ’
16 And how how did he get the coal ?
17 How did he know the radio wavelength to set it off ?
18 How did he know the radio wavelength to set it off ?
19 How did she get the part ?
20 How did she see the car ? ’
21 How did it reach the Seychelles ?
22 How did it affect the way the story about the fight is told , for example , or the uses to which the unofficial communique was put ?
23 How did you make the connection ? ’
24 H how did you view the prospect of working with Sergeant ?
25 And how did you break the addiction ?
26 ‘ Having found the panel , how did you discover the trick to opening it ? ’
27 What , how did how did you collect the songs that you sing then , I mean were they just things that
28 How did you call the car ? ’
29 How did you solve the problem then of er
30 In the erm in the early days , how did you how did you approach the people who were coming up up to the gate ?
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