Example sentences of "how [verb] [pron] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We selected a single project to just learn how to do it just go through the process simply . |
| 2 | How did they actually do it ? |
| 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 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 13 | But how did you ever meet them ? |
| 14 | John , how did you actually get interested in German history ? |
| 15 | How did you then set about using that information ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How did I really know ? |
| 20 | I mean how did I really know I could trust adults ? |
| 21 | How do they actually decide in the end what penalty to impose , assuming a person 's found guilty of course ? |
| 22 | If we ask , how do we best train the next Archbishop of Canterbury , which see is better ? |
| 23 | So that 's what privatization is about and how do we stop the privatization how do we really represent the members by attacking the legislation that prevents us from acting in a spontaneous manner , which will assist our members in their hour of need . |
| 24 | How do we currently balance our managerial effort between ( a ) steady state , and ( b ) development work ? |
| 25 | How do we actually manage to deal with them , some of the ways that we can actually do that . |
| 26 | So how do we actually go about measuring this thing called salinity ? |
| 27 | And how do we actually use this in marketing . |
| 28 | But how do we actually learn ? |
| 29 | Instead of asking ‘ How do we ever unlearn our native egoism ? ’ we must ask ‘ How near to a true philosophical egoism do we ever succeed in getting ? ’ |
| 30 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |