Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] we [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Two or more of these individual meanings tend , however , to be mixed whenever we use the word .
2 First let us consider how we define the Edwardian Era .
3 yes , I know that , but I 'm just explaining how we come to be in Liverpool !
4 The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods .
5 Will my right hon. and learned Friend say how we compared internationally in the 1970s and the 1980s ?
6 To know how we speak .
7 We need to know how we feel about the sounds because if a certain accent or tone is anathema to us we often instinctively turn away from it , forget it .
8 It 's important to take time to get to know how we feel about sex , and what gives us pleasure .
9 By the time we are old enough to be surprised at our own cleverness we have forgotten how we acquired it .
10 You have to come to a conclusion and Professor er described how we 've had to come to a conclusion .
11 In Chapter Five I described how we disguise our motives in conversation through using sub-text .
12 I do n't know how we escaped it so much but we have you see .
13 I 'm being allowed onto her ecologically correct territory , and no one there will know how we kissed and almost , as good as , made love … but I will and she will .
14 We were waiting for Alfred to drop he gun , I do n't know how we knew he had one but we knew , and slowly he took it out of his waist and dropped it .
15 But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’
16 I do n't even know how we got to be born .
17 ‘ I do n't really know how we got together — it was so quick .
18 We do n't know how we got in either
19 But er I do n't know how we got onto it er sh and I think she said something about oh , she knew her tables
20 Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed .
21 I was oblivious to it all , but I do n't know how we managed , as agriculture suffered along with every other industry .
22 A draw , I do n't know how we managed that .
23 ‘ I do n't know how we did it .
24 For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert .
25 I think the I I 'm pleased that this is in the in B , because let 'em know how we feel about it .
26 ‘ Well , perhaps we 'd better know how we stand . ’
27 What the demand and supply situation I do n't know how we stand on that .
28 The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it .
29 It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen .
30 Located in a former wool warehouse , the museum highlights how we perceive and use colour .
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