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Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them .
3	This is not particularly elegant and it is difficult to know how to pronounce it .
4	Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right .
5	I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself .
6	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
7	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 .
8	As we encourage the gifts of the Holy Spirit , and especially prophecy , we need to know how to test them .
9	However , most of us have very ordinary windows and want to know how to treat them well and interestingly for the least possible expense .
10	Details on how to grow dandelions are generally superfluous ; the real need is usually to know how to eradicate them .
11	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 .
12	" It be difficult to know how to say it , sir . "
13	Or outworkers who were expected to know how to perform them to very exacting standards for very low wages .
14	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 .
15	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 .
16	Besides knowing that pants are meant to cover her bottom , a child has to know how to get them there .
17	You 've got to know how to spell them .
18	He needed to know how to play it when the abdominal pains got started .
19	Types 3 and 4 are of direct relevance to us , and are discussed in some detail in the present chapter ; types 1 and 2 , on the other hand , are irrelevant , and we need to know how to exclude them .
20	To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments .
21	One reason why John 's air-taxi service was less than successful was his habit of pretending not to know how to fly the plane or , worse , pretending to have forgotten how to land it once he had succeeded in becoming airborne .
22	Does n't Mm , I 've forgotten how to spell it now !
23	Not within fifteen minutes you 'll to but at the end of this session you will be able to process how to tell us the five main points five main benefits of a certain policy .
24	But she knew now that he lived in a state near total despair , his life so meaningless he did n't know how to live it , his one certainty that he had to find Jake and Fincara .
25	But he did n't know how to reach her .
26	You are bone and wood , Grandmother , so you must know how to save us .
27	She knew she had inherited something unique ; she did not know how to save it ; she found out ; and she did it , down to the last chair cover .
28	Do you know how , do you know how to save it ?
29	‘ They 're ways of recycling first-year money directly into third-year pockets — from students who do n't know how to spend it to those who really need it .
30	They have earned their freedom and do n't know how to spend it .