Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 2 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 3 | The Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves in relation to God and to our fellow men . |
| 4 | Or outworkers who were expected to know how to perform them to very exacting standards for very low wages . |
| 5 | ‘ Rehearsals ’ : how to plan them in order to get the most out of them . |
| 6 | They declared fantasy the radical form , and if this made the Marquis de Sade or Edgar Allan Poe less ‘ bourgeois ’ than Emily Bronte or Dickens , well , never mind : they knew how to enjoy themselves in those days . |
| 7 | They certainly knew how to enjoy themselves in those days . |
| 8 | Anyway , I know how to enjoy myself without old grumpy-boots . ’ |
| 9 | I left my sack for a third time clipped to Sal and relished the cool caress of wind around my back as I finally found out how to enjoy myself on the steep granite of the ridge . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , we still make certain assumptions about them and about our relationship to them , otherwise we would simply not know how to orient ourselves towards the language , or what to say . |
| 11 | With hindsight , the left would have preferred Healey to Kinnock as leader : like all old-style right-wingers , Healey would have known how to accommodate himself to the left ; whereas Kinnock felt obliged to root it out of the party . |
| 12 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 13 | ‘ Gordon , I do n't know how to thank you for your help , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Just does n't know how to treat someone like Mister Johnny . |
| 15 | But , the thing is that they their attitude towards the dominant group and their behaviour towards the dominant group is going to be erm influenced by how perceive their like the treatment , so they 're quite prepared to change their er erm the story they present as it was , about themselves to outsiders , depending on how they see the outsiders erm as likely to react towards them . |
| 16 | SIR JACOB : Billy , how come you to be reconciled to her ? |
| 17 | In fact on erm on one of the erm sheets that I 've brought up there 's a notice of how to repair them with bits of cycle inner tube . |
| 18 | When you have got the idea of how to tighten them in this way , you can do the exercise anywhere . |
| 19 | British patent application 2 098 946 outlines a plan for a kite sail for ships , while 2098950 gives some details of how to launch it in the air . |
| 20 | In terms of Weber 's call for adequacy both at the level of meaning and at the causal level , there is argument at both levels , which , of course , much complicates questions of how to relate them to each other . |
| 21 | Mayer is a Yale-trained lawyer , his background is equally in racing and business , he knows the value of money and how to extract it from sponsors and also was among the first to appreciate , in the changing nature of the sport that the big bucks and the big battalions give any team a better chance of achieving championship results . |
| 22 | MINTO : Ask Paxford , dear : he 'll show you how to work it in the morning . |
| 23 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 24 | Wish she 'd come and tell me how to set ours for a film that 's on about |
| 25 | Chris Hankins shows you how to set it to best advantage . |
| 26 | Within the national funding framework , it is for each local education authority to set its own education budget , and to decide how to allocate it between the various elements of the service , including discretionary awards . |
| 27 | He suspected that Bishop Jon , who guessed , and Tuathal , who knew , had long discussed how to lead him to the state of proper sanctity in which a king should dwell . |
| 28 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 29 | ‘ We will also discuss how to sell yourself as a crafts person , run exhibitions , and negotiate with galleries and we will combine the business side with visits to various exhibitions and museums . |
| 30 | " He 's no idea of how to sell anything except his drawings , " Woodie told Charles , " and hen I doubt whether he charges enough for them . |