Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie had taught me how to live , and the war how to endure . |
| 2 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 3 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 4 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 5 | But my father had taught me how to make them on my arm , fox-bites . |
| 6 | He had taught them how to pick a lock , steal a car , to shoplift … |
| 7 | When the settlers of Canada and North America took Indian land , they conveniently ignored that the Indians had taught them how to cook local foods and prepare herbal medicines . |
| 8 | And the way she put it , she ought to have been alive today , she could have taught them how to tell people about sex . |
| 9 | He said , grinning again , ‘ Then let's hope he 's taught you how to behave . |
| 10 | A competent English teacher may have taught you how to write . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Kettering might have told me how to dress . |
| 12 | I have n't told you how to d I 've told you how to change one third we 've looked at that have n't we and we and we 've worked out sort of how many twelfths would be in it and things like that . |
| 13 | We have shown you how to incorporate the common cables into your knitting , simply imitating hand knitting by crossing over stitches . |
| 14 | Oh I have n't shown you how to do that . |
| 15 | Mother Francis had shown her how to go up the long windy path behind the convent and pick leaves and wild flowers . |
| 16 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 17 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 18 | And nobody had told her how to stop you know . |
| 19 | I 've just told it how to get into the TARDIS . |
| 20 | Professor Conzen has shown us how to analyse town plans to reconstruct their phases of development and discrete planned units . |
| 21 | In the last few months , LES HOLLIDAY has shown us how to run the most efficient marine tank and what to keep in it . |
| 22 | I also got to hear how she intended to jack in her job at the insurance brokers just as soon as they 'd taught her how to use the word-processor and go and work somewhere interesting like in an ad agency or for a travel agent . |
| 23 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 24 | He has taught her how to handle state occasions , how to deal with foreign potentates , when to speak and when not to , how to manage tiring tours and how to cope with the strains of travel . |
| 25 | If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family . |
| 26 | Frank had taught her how to catch . |
| 27 | Years of intensive training in the paranormal had taught him how to draw these kinds of conclusions with consummate speed . |
| 28 | Tim Skerritt had taught him how to catch a trout with his bare hands ; had taught him how to light a fire in the open without the aid of matches or flint . |
| 29 | ‘ And it is I , ’ thought Lord Henry , ‘ who have taught him how to do this . ’ |
| 30 | The years of his isolation on a world where it was often a good idea to appear without warning had taught him how to move silently . |