Example sentences of "[vb pp] [Wh adv] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have forgotten how to read the winds or easily find directions from the stars ; we do not know any more how to read the landscape , and you , Creggan , can not recognize friend from enemy among our own kind . |
| 2 | Drawing on your reserve of quiet self-confidence , you may change this painful situation of total frustration into being an interested observer , leaving all you can , using the opportunity to be aware of people and their reactions to each other , using the practice material there in front of your nose and being content to wait until you have decided if you wish to participate and have considered how to create the opportunity . |
| 3 | If only she 'd looked behind her , she 'd have seen how to avoid the discomfort . |
| 4 | Less than a third ( 12 ) had physically been shown how to apply the drops . |
| 5 | The subject is often shown how to pass the blame for his or her own problems in life onto others — be they parents , teachers or environment . |
| 6 | The tragedy happened when Stewart Davis was being shown how to cross the road safely near his home at Yate , near Bristol . |
| 7 | Each evening , the child was given a piece of chalk and shown how to cross the days off which he did with great satisfaction . |
| 8 | In revising and proof-reading they should be shown how to check the spelling of difficult words in a dictionary . |
| 9 | On page one seven five you 've got how to check the circulation , after you 've put the bandage on to make sure it 's not too tight , it 's not stopping all the blood supply , press a fingernail if there 's only a finger nail and the , it should go white of course if you press it , then the blood should go back and it goes back pink again or an area of er skin , always check your circulation after you 've put your bandage on . |
| 10 | Were you told where to leave the money ? ’ |
| 11 | In the film The Rebel ( 1960 ) Tony Hancock memorably demonstrated how to get the corner seat in a commuter train . |
| 12 | British scientists have found how to diagnose the disease , which causes loss of memory , personality change and dementia . |
| 13 | Even with 90 per cent of their visual cortex removed , rats still remembered how to run the maze . |
| 14 | First and foremost , going to the races had gone to the team 's collective head and with Master James as a media star — and few have known how to manipulate the press with such skill , to make so many journos think they were ‘ particular ’ friends or to understand the voracity of Fleet Street 's sports editors ' avidity for upbeat Brit stories — the Hesketh operation became something of a Back Britain campaign , with patriotism overcoming business common sense . |
| 15 | She 's always known how to get the action into her own corner at the end of the round . |
| 16 | ‘ Naturally , you would always have known how to spell the name , ’ he concurred , laying stress on the word ominously . |
| 17 | They would n't have known how to run the paper , but what did it matter ? |
| 18 | Previous chapters have indicated how to establish the number of new products needed by the company , the funds available to R&D for development and design and how these funds are accounted for . |
| 19 | Previous chapters have indicated how to establish the number of new products needed by the company , the funds available to R&D for development and design and how these funds are accounted for . |
| 20 | ‘ We must now take care ’ , he explained in the Introduction , ‘ that the young men who were born in captivity may be taught how to worship the God of Israel after the manner of their forefathers , till it shall please God that religion shall return unto the land . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What this says to me is that the middle and upper classes are being taught how to control the machine , and the lower class is being controlled by it , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I started at school in the 1920s , when we were taught how to knit the toe and heel of socks ( very handy in later life ) and I continued to knit later for my children , grandchildren and even a great-grandson until about four years ago when I developed knitter 's thumb ! |
| 23 | Some , on leaving school , move into teacher training where they are taught how to become the operators of the system of which they themselves are the products . |
| 24 | A NEW TV series by Jonathon Porritt , former director of Friends of the Earth , is modestly titled How To Save The Earth . |
| 25 | The child may be very obstinate and self-willed and the parents may not have learned how to manage the child 's general behaviour . |
| 26 | So I may be able to make a gif file or 4 next week when I have learned how to use the thing . |
| 27 | Although you have already learned how to hold the camcorder , the way that you stand while you are holding it is important too . |
| 28 | I 've learned how to miss the buoys and the boats . |
| 29 | He judged five minutes was long enough for that , a lifetime when you are five , and since he had just learned how to tell the time he watched the clock over her shoulder . |
| 30 | So a whole generation that has learned how to break the law how do we create them into law-abiding citizens ? |