Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 2 | He tells the sodding establishment where to get off ! |
| 3 | These are the data which tell the planner how to go about accumulating an audience , and what is needed to achieve given levels of reach and frequency ( see page 109 ) . |
| 4 | Their most expensive signing , £2.5million striker Ian Wright , sat on the bench for the opening game with a thigh strain , and turned his ankle in the first minute when coming on . |
| 5 | NEXT MONTH How to brighten up a dark hallway and give it a new lease of life |
| 6 | This will not mean telling the student how to carry out the investigation . |
| 7 | If your back gives you trouble , you may already have decided that finding a cure is as elusive as the Holy Grail , and that learning how to prevent back pain , and cope with it when it is unavoidable is the best way of living with it . |
| 8 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 9 | Dickinson had already set a new training record earlier in the 1982–3 season when sending out the winners of twelve races on Boxing Day 1982 . |
| 10 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 11 | the river how to run on . |
| 12 | At MIT in Project Intrex use was made of the computer to teach the user how to carry out an information search . |
| 13 | ‘ Investors who are making money tend not to complain , no matter how fed up they are with their advisers , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The musical forms that emerged out of the American black experience — gospel , blues , jazz initially ; soul , funk , rock'n'roll , R&B , reggae , rap , House eventually — went on to become the dominant repertoire of popular music throughout the world , no matter how watered down . |
| 15 | I was still a child no matter how grown up I felt . |
| 16 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 17 | A set of instructions written in a programming language , that will tell the computer system how to carry out a specific task . |
| 18 | You 've no idea how let down I felt when you would n't . ’ |
| 19 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 20 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 21 | In that respect they are better off than those who simply inherited the wealth , and now have no real idea how to set about replacing what they have lost . |
| 22 | They have no idea how to get us out of it and even less idea how to stay out of it . |
| 23 | This Government caused the recession , they continued the recession , and now they have not got a clue how to get out of the recession . |
| 24 | SmartStart can also be used to set the AcerPac 450 's alarm clock to tell the system when to wake up , and can date and time in-coming messages as well as play them back and erase them . |
| 25 | Instruction is concerned with enabling the user to learn in detail how to carry out computerized information retrieval . |
| 26 | The guide , which costs £5 , plus 50p postage , describes in detail how to set up and run a successful after-school and holiday care scheme , plus vital information such as basic legal requirements . |
| 27 | The controversial striker took time to settle , but might have had a hat-trick , missing the target when clean through in either half . |