Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mister , I do n't know 'ow to thank you , honest I do n't , you 've got more human kindness than a bishop . |
| 2 | In later sections we will consider how to adjust our body clocks to much larger shifts — as after a time-zone transition or during nightwork , for example . |
| 3 | Selleck 's character wonders how to clear his name in An Innocent Man |
| 4 | Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them . |
| 5 | In his second hundred days , he will have to discover how to turn his ideas into lasting achievements . |
| 6 | Even now the many and various suppliers of loam-based composts have still to discover how to get their products to customers in a state that is fit to use . |
| 7 | The proseution , calling on boxes of financial records and documents , say How deceived his investors by channelling their savings into speculative building projects in France . |
| 8 | I normally say how do you feel , but not in your case , |
| 9 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 10 | If your marriage lacks sparkle , if you would like to know how to improve your relationship , or you have had serious problems but would like to save your marriage , the centre can be of help . |
| 11 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 12 | This is not particularly elegant and it is difficult to know how to pronounce it . |
| 13 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 14 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 15 | so I got , I got to know how to use them by then then then erm while I 've got older dad got another piece of ground what he 's given up now |
| 16 | When learners look up a word or phrase they need to know what it means , but they also need to know how to use it . |
| 17 | As we encourage the gifts of the Holy Spirit , and especially prophecy , we need to know how to test them . |
| 18 | As part of the course , she has to choose a subject of her own about which to write a paper ; one of her difficulties is to know how to form her own views , not just copy already received opinions . |
| 19 | However , most of us have very ordinary windows and want to know how to treat them well and interestingly for the least possible expense . |
| 20 | Details on how to grow dandelions are generally superfluous ; the real need is usually to know how to eradicate them . |
| 21 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 22 | " It be difficult to know how to say it , sir . " |
| 23 | Or outworkers who were expected to know how to perform them to very exacting standards for very low wages . |
| 24 | We train the staff to know how to do their job , and we tell them what is going on elsewhere in the Hotel . |
| 25 | The way in which the above activities are set out in this handbook is deliberately quite detailed in order to suit those who prefer to know how to do everything step by step . |
| 26 | He seemed to know how to do everything that came with running a resort and he did n't seem to mind doing any of it . |
| 27 | He holds a rather higher view of individual intelligence than Taylor , arguing that the person who has to do that job every day is the one most likely to know how to do it . |
| 28 | So it is very important to know how to manage it , that is , how to keep it under your control instead of it getting on top of you . |
| 29 | Besides knowing that pants are meant to cover her bottom , a child has to know how to get them there . |
| 30 | I have n't begun to know how to handle my life — or anyone else 's . |