Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers willing to invest 12p can buy a leaflet How to make a twin-elliptic harmonograph from the Science Museum bookshop . |
| 2 | ‘ For instance , though she can hold a pencil , she has no idea how to colour a picture , she just scribbles all over it . |
| 3 | Apparently James has no idea how to handle staff and they all resent him , ’ she said , wrapping the towel around her shoulders . |
| 4 | It is probable that little happened for later , several members collectively complained about ‘ one insufferably lazy and inattentive caddie who has no idea how to make a tee ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It can be a mystery to the client how the hairdresser made her hair look that way , and she has no idea how to achieve the same effect . |
| 6 | The only problem is , she is Ugandan and speaks very little English , has no idea how to get home and has no money for transport . |
| 7 | The popular success of C. S. Lewis 's broadcasts , published in 1942 as The Screwtape Letters , aroused at least as much indignation as their provocation had plainly sought and deserved , being composed in radical irony out of the mouth of a Devil instructing an acolyte how to spread scepticism and moral confusion through the modern world . |
| 8 | Staff advised the customer how to modify his process , changing the temperature and concentration of materials , so he could recycle the waste himself . |
| 9 | Cizek says : " Child Art and Adult Art are two completely different forms of expression , and no adult can show a child how to draw because of this important difference . " |
| 10 | Nor show a blindworm how to blink , |
| 11 | Some children have little idea of how to chew and so parents demonstrating biting and chewing and talking about it shows the child how to do it . |
| 12 | But when she had tried to contact Ross some weeks after his departure she had had no idea how to get in touch with him . |
| 13 | This Government caused the recession , they continued the recession , and now they have not got a clue how to get out of the recession . |
| 14 | Oh okay I 've got an idea how to use Ferret I think . |
| 15 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 16 | When Ariel saw how the incomers failed to meet indigo 's exacting standards of care , she could not restrain herself from offering her expertise ; she tended , restaked , pruned and watered the trampled shrubberies of Sycorax , teaching the English how to cultivate the precious dye . |
| 17 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 18 | Computerised library courses certainly teach the student how to interact with the terminal and use computer dialogue . |
| 19 | These are the data which tell the planner how to go about accumulating an audience , and what is needed to achieve given levels of reach and frequency ( see page 109 ) . |
| 20 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 21 | To aid sales of his systems , he encouraged other software companies to develop applications programs ( which tell the computer how to work as a word processor , spreadsheet , database manager and the like ) for use with them . |
| 22 | The Overseas Timetable is magical reading to the traveller , its tightly-packed pages tell the reader how to catch a train , bus or ship in about 8,300 places , from a frozen corner of Alaska to Zongo in Zaire . |
| 23 | gives you the resources , and tell the teacher how to manage it it 's all about the , and it 's that , you know it 's not listen , it is actually |
| 24 | ( OK , so I 'm guilty of psychic breaking and entering on a massive scale , and the occasional bit of arson , but I did deliver a few villains their come-uppances when nobody else could , and I once taught a woman how to fly … ) |
| 25 | The karate kata is a carefully devised procedure for teaching a beginner how to flow from one technique into another without a break . |
| 26 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 27 | She did n't have a clue how to relate to men — or at least not in the way her peers , someone like Mandy , would . |
| 28 | I 'm glad I 'm not in the position of having to sort out Everton 's troubles , because I would n't have a clue how to get them out of the mess they are in . |
| 29 | ‘ These days everyone uses computers , and I did n't want to look an idiot if I told people I did n't have a clue how to work one ! ’ |
| 30 | There is a pamphlet which tells the reader how to see Aarau in 45 minutes . |