Example sentences of "[verb] how [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By all means outlaw unsafe parties , but the Government must consider how to allow properly organised events to take place . |
| 2 | You can see that there 's no point in the Bible writers wasting ink explaining how to go out with someone who fancies you when ‘ going out ’ and ‘ fancying ’ were n't part of the way that they did things then ! |
| 3 | It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass . |
| 4 | Parent : ‘ Well , he does n't seem to know how to behave properly . ’ |
| 5 | How odd people were , how unpredictable and curious , how difficult it was to know how to behave so that one pleased oneself and society as well . |
| 6 | And as a not-particularly-modest Squidgey told her friend in that most revealing of telephone calls , you have to have been to Hell and back yourself to know how to behave nicely with the dying . |
| 7 | It is designed , say its publishers , ‘ to help people who want to know how to set up a sound production office and how to make wise decisions about buying print . ’ |
| 8 | If you need more information , ring Rape Crisis on 071-837-1600 ( do keep trying if you ca n't get through ) , and if you want to know how to set up a group in your area , write to Incest Survivors in Strength , c/o 34 , Margate Rd . |
| 9 | The problem is to know how to pick out those thieves with high-lying ears . |
| 10 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 11 | So they used to know how to get there before |
| 12 | You have to know how to keep ahead of this game if you do n't want to wind up in a wooden trenchcoat . |
| 13 | ‘ Listen boy , ’ he said , addressing the son and ignoring Matilda , ‘ seeing as you 'll be going into this business with me one day , you 've got to know how to add up the profits you make at the end of each day . |
| 14 | You simply could not expect them to know how to fight properly . |
| 15 | I do not wish to know how to bring up my children , what view to have about drug addicts , how much Shakespeare should be taught in comprehensive schools or how much I must marvel at the achievements of members of the Commonwealth countries . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to know how to make up without looking much too heavily made-up . ’ |
| 17 | He ca n't be expected to know how to stay out of trouble here in the country . |
| 18 | When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman . |
| 19 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 20 | They did n't know how to live well . ’ |
| 21 | I simply did n't know how to rebel openly . |
| 22 | Very good at setting up cars , he was less fortunate in his choice of engineers and , when he had good ones , did not know how to leave well enough alone . |
| 23 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 24 | There are of course reasons why people do not set goals : they may not realize the importance of goals ; they may not know how to set about it ; or more importantly , they may have a fear of failure . |
| 25 | But we do n't know how to set about it . |
| 26 | ‘ He says that of all people who would know how to use best this money , it 's you . ’ |
| 27 | I just did n't know how to cope so I sent her out of the room . |
| 28 | ‘ You — ’ he began , and searched his memory for the worst word in the Trob tongue ; the happy little beTrobi did n't really know how to swear properly . |
| 29 | well I do n't know how to fill out the register |
| 30 | They may not recognise when they are in danger , for example when crossing a busy road , or they may not know how to carry out even the most basic safety precautions necessary for the prevention of fire , accidents and infection . |