Example sentences of "learn [Wh adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He learnt how to talk in the car on the way home , even when he did n't want to ; he learnt how to take a shower in somebody else 's bathroom without embarrassing himself . |
| 2 | He learnt how to take a car to pieces . |
| 3 | And you learnt how to say , ‘ Thank you ’ and wear blue eye make-up . |
| 4 | And he was delighted that he learnt how to say , I 'm having a lie-in tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | But in the end , I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light . |
| 6 | She only learnt how to put on a bandage last month . ’ |
| 7 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 8 | It 's about time you you switched the heating and learnt how to do it . |
| 9 | He learnt how to talk in the car on the way home , even when he did n't want to ; he learnt how to take a shower in somebody else 's bathroom without embarrassing himself . |
| 10 | I learnt how to paint a window properly , and tile a loo . |
| 11 | And they used to buy me new material to encourage me and I learnt how to sew from that . |
| 12 | In the 1930s you learnt how to behave as a human being from movies . |
| 13 | Lesson by lesson , Boy learnt how to behave in the company of men . |
| 14 | Other one would learnt how to open a crack , and it were in that cage , and it could hear birds outside . |
| 15 | You learnt how to smoke , how to hold a cigarette . |
| 16 | I learnt how to occupy myself . |
| 17 | For the residential section , she travelled to Cumbria and learnt how to sail her first time on a boat . |
| 18 | I even learnt how to change his soiled coat . |
| 19 | I learnt how to change the break pads and a wheel . |
| 20 | A lot of the information was above her head but she had persevered until she learnt how to keep a good set of accounts . |
| 21 | ‘ The Thing ’ learnt how to make authority apologetic . |
| 22 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 23 | He learnt how to make love in complete silence or to talk all night if that was what the other man wanted . |
| 24 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 25 | I learnt how to make fish , and fruit , and a piece of meat out of wood and coloured paper . |
| 26 | If you came to supper now , you could watch television , and Violet learnt how to play poker in California , she 's teaching me , we could have a game and Perdita would love to see you . ’ |
| 27 | There she learnt how to handle a .38 calibre Smith and Wesson revolver and a Hechler and Koch machine pistol which are now standard issue to members of the Royal Protection squad . |
| 28 | Rich delivered boxes of socks and learnt how to fold a suit . |
| 29 | You had to go to a modelling school where you learnt how to get in and out of cars with your legs just so , so that nobody could see your knickers . |
| 30 | It was n't Sky 's fault that the Premier League football on display represented the biggest mis-use of the word ‘ premier ’ since Adam and Eve learnt how to spell . |