Example sentences of "how [prep] earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't mean to be rude , but how on earth are you going to find another job the way unemployment is now ? |
| 2 | My first thought on picking up this very substantial volume , was how on earth can information on rock gear fill so much space . |
| 3 | ‘ But how on earth can you get hit by a train ? ’ |
| 4 | As a former chairman of An Taisce , Ireland 's equivalent of the National Trust , says : ‘ How on earth do you rehabilitate a 6,000-year-old peat bog ? ’ |
| 5 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 6 | How on earth can such an agreement be shown to exist ? |
| 7 | How on earth does Parliament scrutinise an Act with only one clause ? |
| 8 | How on earth does Parliament scrutinise an Act with only one clause ? |
| 9 | If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ? |
| 10 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 11 | How on earth … ? |
| 12 | I wonder how on earth we worked the 1979 and 1983 elections without them . |
| 13 | ‘ How on earth do they know ? ’ |
| 14 | How on earth does he expect the exile clubs of London Scottish and Irish to survive if they are not included in the English league system ? |
| 15 | The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ? |
| 16 | ‘ Has to be the system , ’ he confirmed , wondering how on earth this had come about . |
| 17 | But I ca n't see how on earth to make it go away . ’ |
| 18 | If penicillin was going to be tried in man , how on earth was enough going to be made ? |
| 19 | The Youngs often wondered how on earth people managed without such storage space . |
| 20 | ‘ But how on earth could she know ? |
| 21 | How on earth can they protest about hunting when they are prepared to injure humans and horses in their cause ? |
| 22 | To start with I wondered how on earth I would be credible to all the media people . |
| 23 | ‘ How on earth it strayed so far away from the flock without being missed . |
| 24 | ‘ I hear people passing and saying ‘ How on earth do they allow a porch to be built on top of the pavement ? ’ |
| 25 | And , if you were riding along the cliffs at Kinghorn , how on earth did you see the King 's corpse lying on the rocks below ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How on earth did he know ? ’ |
| 27 | How on earth did they keep track of them all ? |
| 28 | She 's been married , got two kids — how on earth she gave birth to those two children , is beyond me , how on earth she made it is beyond me . |
| 29 | She 's been married , got two kids — how on earth she gave birth to those two children , is beyond me , how on earth she made it is beyond me . |
| 30 | How on earth that evolved is probably a relativity equation comparable with Einstein 's . |