Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 2 | As she gave oral sex to the other man , Davis watched fascinated , and , asking her to instruct him how to do it , took over from her . |
| 3 | To assist pupils to set appropriate levels of aspiration and to teach them how to cope with failure and success . |
| 4 | Functional courses set out to list the purposes for which students might wish to use language , and then to teach them how to do so . |
| 5 | We are more seriously cheating children if we fail to teach them how to use language than if we fail to teach them to enjoy and participate in the arts . |
| 6 | This area became our most precious place ; where we took the children to teach them how to fish ; to watch black , and red-throated divers , golden eagle , golden plover , greenshank and dunlin ; where we could walk endless miles with only the sky and the wind for company . |
| 7 | ‘ He was training last week and two little lads came in the gym , and immediately Eubank stopped what he was doing and started to teach them how to box — you 've no idea just how much he loves being a champion . ’ |
| 8 | A giant film set has been opened to children to teach them how to stay alive . |
| 9 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 10 | If , at any point , I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless — a prisoner or a caged bird — I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife , asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked , and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening . |
| 11 | I said he 'd have to teach me how to do it . |
| 12 | You just wanted to teach me how to cope with this horrible bastard blue stuff that 's invading my head . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Listen , Private Nobody , do n't try to teach me how to suck eggs , let's get you to your porridge . ’ |
| 14 | What a fool , he 's trying to teach me how to suck eggs , thought Blackbeard . |
| 15 | BIRTH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS Being cross-examined is a daunting experience , but there are courses to teach you how to cope with it |
| 16 | But I 'm I 'm not here to teach you how to do the pitch . |
| 17 | Nine man 's morris is just erm one of the games that is easy for them to devise if yo , if you want me to teach you how to play it , if you do n't know already I will . |
| 18 | Rather he guides the student to likely sources and tries to teach him how to find paths to other sources . |
| 19 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 20 | But as an Indian woman , and the only daughter among seven brothers , she resisted all attempts to teach her how to cook and clean fish and how to prepare spices for sauces . |
| 21 | And blood he had paid to teach her how to cope with imminence was crusting on his collar . |
| 22 | We live in a society which prizes the freedom of the individual , but we are short on means to teach her how to handle it . |
| 23 | Even if you have a technician on call to deal with equipment it is a very good idea to teach yourself how to set up , plug in and check the obvious things when something goes wrong . |
| 24 | Walsh and Everett began to advise them how to do it , but it was too late . |
| 25 | Unfortunately I am unable to advise you how to spot a rambler in a pub , since ramblers do n't go into pubs . |
| 26 | To advise you how to get help on drugs . |
| 27 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 28 | Oh I just wanted to ask you how to work the machine but it 's done now . |
| 29 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 30 | Well it 's for younger children I suppose , like Kirsty , to learn , to show them how to hold a pencil tidy . |