Example sentences of "how did [pron] [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 ?
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