Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 2 | We will have to wait to see how the new system works . |
| 3 | These responses are then examined to see how the subjects perform on the production of certain given morphemes ( the progressive morpheme — ing , the plural morpheme , the past tense morpheme , etc. ) in linguistic contexts which would , in native speaker speech , require their obligatory occurrence . |
| 4 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 5 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 6 | At any particular time governors and staff may want to know how the plans are progressing and whether they are being carried out as was agreed . |
| 7 | I hope viewers will want to know how the relationships turn out . ’ |
| 8 | The computer people will want to know how the software will fit in with their portfolio of software , whether it will require additional computer equipment , how well it will be maintained , how portable it is and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 10 | So if we add an example using the N tuple technique of the exclusive or problem for example er like that we want to see how the network would solve that okay in terms of a single layer network . |
| 11 | how they want to see how the English word is spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 12 | Karen also rose , muttering something about checking to see how the meringue was coming along . |
| 13 | The same is true of the all-important assessment arrangements , where secondary schools must wait to see how the tensions between TGAT and the GCSE boards ( and between Standard Assessment Tasks and school-based assessment ) will finally be resolved . |
| 14 | Microsoft Corp Windows NT will be supported as a client — Banyan will wait to see how the market shapes up before making a decision to port to the server version . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe ’ , I said , with a completely straight face , ‘ he wants to see how the units are getting on . ’ |
| 16 | If you want to know how the bird 's eye in maple is formed ask a logger . |
| 17 | ‘ So I want to know how the investigation is getting on . |
| 18 | She strongly objects to the chimps ' tea party in Brooke Bond tea ads : ‘ I still want to know how the chimps are made to move their mouths like that . |
| 19 | Plus they want to know how the branches is gon na operate . |
| 20 | WANT to know how the stockmarket 's doing ? |
| 21 | Unit managers want to know how the business is faring , how they compare to the rest of the company and even the rest of the world . |
| 22 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 23 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 24 | Do different they want to know how the English language is spoken and that . |
| 25 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 26 | It seems important , therefore , to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about . |
| 27 | Parties faced with an expert 's decision or an arbitration award will need to know how the decision or award may be enforced , whether they can appeal against the decision or award and whether they can sue the expert or arbitrator . |
| 28 | But , ’ Jay teeters on the brink of a revelation , ‘ the A&R man does n't have to know about your music ; he has to know how the system works , how to get your material through the system . |
| 29 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 30 | He tried to imagine how the boy would look now that he was nine . |