Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | It would hardly have done him much good in his professional life , where women were always wanting to know if they were having them or how to stop them or conceive them , if he had been . |
| 3 | And then if you want to find out the reason for the tension or how to stop it , what you have to do is look at the interests of those concerned . |
| 4 | Sometimes they do n't know why they have done it or how to control it . |
| 5 | The assumption that they do not know how to run their house properly , or how to feed their families , or manage their money , is likely to lead to rejection . |
| 6 | He was n't sure what he 'd found out or how to phrase it . |
| 7 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 8 | Nobody teaches a child the actual mechanics of producing word sounds or how to use his mind to think or experience emotions . |
| 9 | More than 9000 children were seriously injured last year and research shows that young children do not understand the dangers of traffic , or how to avoid them . |
| 10 | ‘ Secondly , I think we are very sympathetic to regional producers who may be daunted by hygiene standards or how to distribute their products . ’ |
| 11 | While on his own home ground he knows how to do things , or how to get them done , beyond the boundaries of his home ground he knows , at best , only that he should comply with the rules without necessarily understanding why or precisely what all of the relevant rules are : he may simply go through the motions . |
| 12 | Few witnesses in court refuse ‘ to tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth ’ on the grounds that they do n't know what the truth is or how to tell it . |
| 13 | Their work is obviously the result of struggle , of trying to create something coherent without knowing exactly what that something is , or how to find it . |
| 14 | Because , of course , this was his place , he knew it , he belonged , and there he had not known where to look or how to fold his hands . |
| 15 | When Jeanne contacted me , she and husband John were , indeed , unsure exactly how to handle Moby , or how to prevent his nervousness and excitability becoming normal behaviour without inhibiting his need to experience his surrounding environment . |
| 16 | How does he know — or how do we know — that they are right ? |
| 17 | I think it 's almost like asking somebody the question how do you decide what you 're interested in , or how do you decide what 's worrying you or upsetting you , or pleasing you . |
| 18 | She loved this tiny creature so much she did n't know how to contain it , or how to show it enough . |
| 19 | Erm you might think that all graphs always look like that , or bits of graphs are always like that , or where does it all tie in ? |
| 20 | Well is n't that normal , or where do they normally put their books ? |
| 21 | Or where do I — can I write down an address on a piece of paper and I will try to mail them from the hotel . |
| 22 | How , he asks , ‘ come we by general terms , or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for ? ’ |
| 23 | It was no good wondering how had it happened , or why had it happened . |
| 24 | Or why do you speak with her ? |
| 25 | We know that there are in principle X young people who could qualify for that entitlement — that information is available from the census — but their choice whether or when to exercise it is not predictable . |
| 26 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 27 | Or when did we get that vase ? |
| 28 | W w w when did a person or when did you stop being stop being a ? |
| 29 | And s and so wh when did you er who s who built this house or when did you move to this part ? |
| 30 | But Modigliani knew neither how to lie nor how to adapt himself ; everyone who met him knows how very straightforward he was . ’ |