Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They requested permission to work on their own in a small area immediately outside the classroom , collected paper and felts , decided between them how to take turns to scribe . |
| 2 | Such a map will enable the reader to work out for himself how to get from one location to another within the town . |
| 3 | Questions of this switched on and some of them how to do . |
| 4 | Trent considered showing one of them how to keep the bows of the Zodiac to the wind in case he had to cast them off but Louis was beside him . |
| 5 | They do n't know anything about life , so they come and tell the rest of us how to live it . ’ |
| 6 | It was he who taught some of us how to use a .38 calibre revolver when we went hiking on the rolling prairies for shooting competitions , with gophers or tin cans as our main targets . |
| 7 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 8 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 9 | Targets for reductions are issued but each local council has to decide for itself how to meet the targets . |
| 10 | We therefore weighing with ourselves how to prevent the endeavours of such wicked persons … thought necessary to disunite and dissociate the Apothecaries of our City of London from the Freedom of the Mystery of Grocers … into one body Corporate and politic … to whom in all future time the management of those inconveniences might be given charge and committee … after the manner of other Companies . |
| 11 | It is here irrelevant to decide whether the Roman generals learnt how to cry from their Hellenistic opposite numbers just as they learnt from them how to write autobiographical letters on their victories . |
| 12 | I think that the church has the responsibility to continue to find new and innovative ways of reaching out and doing a better job and that is er testimony to the fact that we can continue to reach out to persons who are suffering in many ways , and I would appreciate and look forward to learning better from you how to do that and would be happy to share . |
| 13 | You are demonstrating to them how to recognize , name and communicate their feelings without going overboard . |
| 14 | I mean I get phone calls everyday all day long from VETS who are saying I 've got this prickly ball , what the hell do I do with it , you see , and I can explain to them how to try and unroll a hedgehog and then what to do when you get inside the hedgehog . |
| 15 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 16 | Eventually I got myself an editor who explained to me how to write a book , more or less , and what purple prose was , and all of that . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll just give you the overall concept of the thing , and it 's up to you how to interpret as you see fit . ’ |
| 18 | Dale Weller , of Whitcliffe Grange , Richmond , said Sturdy had explained to him how to spot counterfeit video tapes . |
| 19 | The stoma care nurse visited Mr Reynolds later in the day and demonstrated to him how to change the colostomy appliance . |
| 20 | She says to me I 've explained to her how to do it and she says yo I 'll give you a bit of paper you just write down the answers ! |
| 21 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 22 | School taught me how to read early , and I found out for myself how to do it fast . |
| 23 | They want to arrange their own lunches , decide for themselves how to spend some days . |
| 24 | Rather than try to combine all individual reports of unmet need into a county-wide planning process , the council has split its records into two types : the individual care assessment , where care managers decide for themselves how to record needs , and a more formal , anonymous sample of 10 per cent of service users , which can be used for planning . |
| 25 | Continually there is value in the teacher telling the story whilst the class are doing it ; everybody works at one and the same time , discovering for themselves how to do each thing . |
| 26 | It was disconcerting for visitors to primary schools to see teachers , who had declined to teach their pupils the multiplication tables , hoping to get them to discover for themselves how to count up books , conveniently arranged round the room in groups of four . |