Example sentences of "[Wh adv] did [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did they actually do it ? |
| 2 | But how did he how did he not get pricked ? |
| 3 | I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’ |
| 4 | Old , old jeans , worn-out shirt ; how did he still manage to look so devastating ? |
| 5 | How did he always manage to turn the tables on her like that ? |
| 6 | ‘ How did he ever settle ? ’ |
| 7 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 8 | Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ? |
| 9 | God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ? |
| 10 | But how did it actually work ? |
| 11 | How did you really track this woman down ? ’ |
| 12 | How did you how do you recall that ? |
| 13 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 14 | But how did you ever meet them ? |
| 15 | John , how did you actually get interested in German history ? |
| 16 | How did you then set about using that information ? |
| 17 | He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously . |
| 18 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
| 19 | Costa and Costa1 argue that word processing programs on microcomputers " have a way of transforming even computerphobes into dedicated believers of the " how did I ever live without it " variety " and , such is the difference in quality of output between documents produced on a word processor and those handwritten or typed on a conventional typewriter , that school librarians , teachers and pupils quickly become convinced of the need for and extensive uses of such programs . |
| 20 | How did I really know ? |
| 21 | I mean how did I really know I could trust adults ? |
| 22 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 23 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
| 24 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
| 25 | Why did we always talk of it as ‘ the age of the Grammar School ’ ? |
| 26 | Why did we never see the child ? |
| 27 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 28 | Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ? |
| 29 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
| 30 | Why did they not interfere with catapults ? — these did more injury than other weapons . ’ |