Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [Wh adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm instructing you how to respond to me . ’ |
| 2 | Lear imposes himself as a burden on his two remaining daughters by expecting them how to look after him and his retinue in his old age . |
| 3 | Since Frank 's departure , Tom had played cards with us more often and Terry and Bri started teaching me how to play poker . |
| 4 | But I am teaching them how to programme the video properly , Mr Lang . |
| 5 | Teaching them how to deal with people , even when they break for crisps and fruit juice . |
| 6 | But you 're teaching them how to evade questions when the TV reporter needs an answer . |
| 7 | In Sheffield the Council got the local School Board to stop supplying boys in Standard VII ( the oldest class in the schools ) with dummy rifles ; the Board also agreed to stop teaching them how to use them . |
| 8 | Teaching them how to do that is education , not cramming . ’ |
| 9 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 10 | You 'd do better teaching them how to cook . |
| 11 | We were both monitors and I helped the teacher with the younger children , teaching them how to knit socks and balaclavas for the soldiers at the Front . |
| 12 | This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils . |
| 13 | Rayner can not resist the British crow that they started downhill at Montana , Switzerland , in 1911 ; or that the Wengen Swiss are everlastingly grateful to the Downhill Only Club ( otherwise , not too literately , the DHO ) for teaching them how to race and how to lose . |
| 14 | ‘ Right , it 's kitchen fatigues for you when you 're on your feet again , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that 'll include teaching you how to do a fair job of work on spuds . |
| 15 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Lodsworth 'll be teaching him how to untie clove hitches . ’ |
| 17 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 18 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 19 | He half-stumbled out of the room up to his bed and blessed , blessed sleep , where his dreams were a mixture of lobsters with evil intent towards the Prince of Wales , of Charles Dickens teaching him how to catch a pungar , and of Araminta , receding further and further into a boiling sea of mutton broth . |
| 20 | I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience . |
| 21 | If you introduce the pupil to this strategy , you are teaching him how to learn . |
| 22 | This mother says having extra help was an excellent idea in teaching her how to breastfeed . |
| 23 | Without bothering to close the door , Ludovico began to make long and passionate love to her , teaching her how to take and give pleasure in ways she had never dreamed of . |
| 24 | Because the panic attacks had become a habit with her , I spent a few sessions with Eileen teaching her how to overcome them . |
| 25 | Because of the disruptive influence of Self 1 on our performance , Gallwey , rather than teaching us how to perform a skill , concentrates on ways of distracting Self 1 thereby letting the body perform in its own intuitive way . |
| 26 | We had real cowboys teaching us how to use a gun although I 've never felt the need to carry a gun um , I felt like a five year old with a pistol . |
| 27 | But , eh listen , if , do n't be frighten if there 's anything that you do n't know do n't you be frightened of asking him how to do it |
| 28 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 29 | once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the |
| 30 | Tony 's showing me how to play knuckle-bones , I do n't know whose knuckles he 's using , he gets them from Boudicca , if we come across the Governor 's we 'll send them back . |