Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the cry of ‘ Fire' ’ it seeks only how to get out not what to carry out. , |
| 2 | ‘ I 've tried everything , so why go on trying to understand their hostile behaviour ? |
| 3 | So why run up an even more expensive bill ? ’ |
| 4 | Golding 's boys knew exactly how to go about killing the pig , but did not have enough courage to go about it . |
| 5 | As it turned out , the huge complexity of deciding exactly how to sell off all or part of BR dogged and divided ministers right up to the election campaign . |
| 6 | Thus policy-makers need to consider not just how to open up employment for lone mothers , but also how best to support those who are not employed . |
| 7 | They decide they want a mainly blue or green or apricot room and know just how to set about achieving it . |
| 8 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 9 | She looked down , realising just how keyed up he was ; how close he had come to snapping at her . |
| 10 | What is seldom realised , until a first cross-country , is the vast increase in mental workload involved when soaring , map reading , field landings and flying have to be thought of , instead of just how to stay up . |
| 11 | Charles , the immaculate maitre d'hotel , always gave us his personal attention , and following a gourmet lunch knew exactly when to bring on Gilbert 's favourite dessert — wild strawberries drenched in kirsch . |
| 12 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 13 | ‘ She knows just when to roll over , give a whoof and never misses a line , ’ says director Peter Kennedy . |
| 14 | So we had to go past this little shed which is right up right up this stupid grass earthy bank right over the side so we could see quickly how to get in . |
| 15 | Erm we also offered everything from sort of secretarial help and er use of photocopiers and duplicators , to the tenants ' group , through to I guess being able to perhaps suggest to them who in the council it might be that they needed to speak to , or perhaps tactically how to go about achieving their particular aims . |
| 16 | Anne realised now how jumbled up and contrived the interior was . |
| 17 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 18 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 19 | Erm I think you know there how to pick up quite a few |
| 20 | Then why give in to him ? he asked himself . |
| 21 | I find often that nothing clear and definite comes until sometime later , possibly on the next morning , sometimes when carrying out the seemingly pedestrian duties of the day , when a short , crystallised thought comes into the mind with clarity and authority . |
| 22 | The 1991 Cheltenham hero has fallen from grace this season , showing a poor attitude and worse form , most recently when tailed off last behind Mole Board at Sandown a fortnight ago . |
| 23 | The Drôme , the Tricastin , the Nyonsais regions are so different from Provence , so unfrequented early in the year , so interesting historically and architecturally why hurry off to the south ? |