Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [noun sg] [Wh adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clemens Krauss had taught classes in the past but he had left the whole thing in the hands of a Professor Wunderer and a man from the Vienna Philharmonic who was interested in conducting but had n't the slightest idea how to go about it . |
| 2 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , and the reports that I 've had back from the governors was that Concept Catering was so , so absolutely certain that they were the only people who could do it , that when they were faced with competition , they had n't got the faintest idea how to respond to it . |
| 4 | He did n't really mind which one , the Hallé would do for a start , but he had n't the faintest idea how to go about it and nor had anyone else . |
| 5 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 6 | He looked fiercely alarming and in actual fact she had n't the faintest idea how to begin this task . |
| 7 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 8 | Marcus had said she was too introverted and frigid to have the vaguest idea how to find , let alone enjoy , the pleasures of life . |
| 9 | This [ contemporary ] condition … greatly puzzles the now small body of surviving constitutionalists old enough to remember the sentiment of the mid-Victorian era , with its prevalent belief that to imitate the forms , or at any rate to adopt the spirit of the English constitution , was the best method whereby to confer upon the people of any civilised country the combined blessings of order and of progress . |