Example sentences of "how [verb] [pers pn] [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 But how did he how did he not get pricked ?
4 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 ? ’
5 Old , old jeans , worn-out shirt ; how did he still manage to look so devastating ?
6 How did he always manage to turn the tables on her like that ?
7 How did he ever settle ? ’
8 How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg .
9 Worse , when resentment over exploitation is recognized , how did it ever get reinterpreted as illness ?
10 God , she thought , how did it ever come to this ?
11 But how did it actually work ?
12 How did you really track this woman down ? ’
13 How did you how do you recall that ?
14 And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ?
15 But how did you ever meet them ?
16 John , how did you actually get interested in German history ?
17 How did you then set about using that information ?
18 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 .
19 How did I ever fall for a paper-clip ?
20 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 .
21 How did I really know ?
22 I mean how did I really know I could trust adults ?
23 How do they actually decide in the end what penalty to impose , assuming a person 's found guilty of course ?
24 If we ask , how do we best train the next Archbishop of Canterbury , which see is better ?
25 But how do we not give up ?
26 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 .
27 How do we currently balance our managerial effort between ( a ) steady state , and ( b ) development work ?
28 How do we actually manage to deal with them , some of the ways that we can actually do that .
29 So how do we actually go about measuring this thing called salinity ?
30 And how do we actually use this in marketing .
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