Example sentences of "[coord] how [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | He was n't sure what he 'd found out or how to phrase it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How does he know — or how do we know — that they are right ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She loved this tiny creature so much she did n't know how to contain it , or how to show it enough . |
| 13 | Understandably , therefore , people take success as it comes and rarely consider the ingredients of the success nor how to replicate it . |
| 14 | He knew neither what to write nor how to write it . |
| 15 | If you want to know more about these benefits and how to claim them , pick up leaflet MV.11 at your social security office or most post offices . |
| 16 | For details of grants available and how to claim them , contact the Energy Action Grants Agency , Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 1JL . |
| 17 | From fake fur to fun hats , Carol shows us what to wear and how to wear it . |
| 18 | Arriving at the right message , deciding who the right people are , and how to reach them , is a highly complex business , and the result is an advertising strategy for your client which is sound and provides a realistic and workable rationale for his campaign . |
| 19 | Probably the most important aspect of any advertising campaign is the decision about what to say to prospective customers , and how to say it . |
| 20 | ( ii ) They should be shown how to locate material from a range of sources , eg subject-specific reference books , adult encyclopaedias and databases , how to select material by deploying the appropriate reading strategy , how to evaluate it and how to draw it together into a coherent package . |
| 21 | Next issue ; Problem will be the minor ( ? ! ! ) ailments of pregnancy and how to ease them . |
| 22 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 23 | That was a man who knew where the main chance was and how to take it . |
| 24 | How should you collect them and how organise them ? |
| 25 | And how had they found her here ? |
| 26 | And how had he shed his train ? |
| 27 | And how had I chosen what was ‘ right ’ and what was ‘ wrong ’ ? |
| 28 | Vitor had arrived with amicability in mind , albeit a self-serving amicability , and how had she responded ? |
| 29 | We all sat down together again and chatted in general about falconry , and in particular about equipment and how to put it on correctly ; how to hold the bird properly ; different methods of training a bird ; the various illnesses and complaints they suffer from and how to cure them ; and simply how to take good care of birds . |
| 30 | I have heard no demur from the opinion that the Woolf report is the finest document for 100 years on what is wrong with our prisons and the penal system and how to put it right . |