Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Program them to self-destruct whenever they miss a target . |
| 2 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 3 | It will explore how they make sense of their predicament , and how , and in what circumstances , they devise separate or joint coping strategies to enable them to survive . |
| 4 | Chodorow and Bem , for example , note their middle-class biases , but do not explore how they affect their concepts of family socialization . |
| 5 | Creed was showing some of the pieces to the tourist and explaining how they worked . |
| 6 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 7 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 8 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | I have to simulate perception of situations not present to my senses ( that is , imagine them ) in order to discover how I would respond , and incipiently simulate other persons ( that is , empathize them ) in order to discover how they respond ; I have to explore how things look and feel from different viewpoints . |
| 10 | We wanted to discover how they feel about their lives , whether housewife is an adequate job description and to find out if this war between women really exists . |
| 11 | Figure 9.7 illustrates how they feed the east-west flow . |
| 12 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |
| 13 | I still like to know how they staple it . |
| 14 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be interesting to know how they got it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Both Betty and Lydia found this odd and wanted to know how they 'd managed . |
| 17 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 18 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Want to know how they did it ? |
| 20 | He wants to know how they live , how they think . |
| 21 | They can be irritatingly slow to publish , and it is often difficult to know how they spend their time . |
| 22 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 23 | She described how they had carried their water in those sheepskins , which they call jerbah . |
| 24 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |
| 25 | He described how they went outside , and saw the flattened port , and hundreds of bodies lying right around them , their exposed skin scalded , and he remembered the obscene and chilling stillness of it all . |
| 26 | Police eyebrows were raised when they described how they prayed sitting quietly in a circle . |
| 27 | He described how they heard a plane , and then came the searing flash and tempestuous roar , and then the utter unbroken silence of the grave . |
| 28 | The critic Richard Buckle accompanied them and described how they sat in the stalls of the empty theatre afterwards while Balanchine told them ‘ what he liked and did not like about it and how it could be improved ’ . |
| 29 | I do n't know how they felt about it , but the rest of us loved it . |
| 30 | just ca n't take it , and I do n't know how they cope with it afterwards |