Example sentences of "how [verb] [art] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And lo ! how doth the brown bear frolic upon a bank of sempiternal moss ! |
| 2 | So how did a bar have the effect of turning a sleepy little town on a far-flung Azorian island into one of the major yachting ports of the world ? |
| 3 | How did a man stay a man when the one prop which supported him was knocked away ? |
| 4 | ‘ How did a man like you ever come to be in the Pioneers ? ’ asked the board . |
| 5 | Instead he asked , ‘ How did a Cockney end up in this godforsaken spot ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How did a wind get down there ? ’ asked Ho . |
| 7 | How did a tenant acquire the pennies ( say , 6d. -12d. ) to pay his annual rent ? |
| 8 | So how did the event get the title of the festival of the horse ? |
| 9 | How did the thoughts take hold of you ? |
| 10 | ‘ How did the play go ? ’ he asked . |
| 11 | 4.3 Once again , our interpretation has consequences for grammaticality and linguistic form which match observable data : First , it implies , inter alia , that adjectives which can not be ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase — such as the associatives — will be unacceptable here , just as they are in postnominal attributive position , and this is indeed the case : ( 19 ) how did the Ministry send their expert ? they sent their expert well-briefed they sent their expert meteorological ( 20 ) how do you find the new flag ? we find the flag gaudy we find the flag national |
| 12 | But how did the public react ? |
| 13 | ‘ And how did the council answer , my lord ? ’ asked Joan . |
| 14 | ‘ And how did the prince make answer , my lady ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | How did the Prince learn of Lady Eleanor 's death ? ’ |
| 16 | How did the issue relate to profit ? |
| 17 | And how did the performers feel about performing in semi-public and for posterity ? |
| 18 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 19 | How did the furore start ? |
| 20 | But in the days before television and radio , almost before phonograph records , how did the music spread so far and so wide ? |
| 21 | ‘ How did the idea originate ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ How did the kidnappers react ? ’ |
| 23 | So how did the deadline work ? |
| 24 | ‘ If they were , how did the driver miss them ? |
| 25 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 26 | How did the transformation come about ? |
| 27 | How did the drug react with embalming or preserving fluids ? |
| 28 | ‘ But how did the Milettis know , for that matter ? ’ |
| 29 | Well Tom you 've picked the best and this is it — how did the judges make out ? |
| 30 | ‘ But how did the letters get into his desk ? ’ asked Bobbie . |