Example sentences of "how [adv] do we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long do we have to discuss AMNASS ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ How long do we have to wait ? |
| 3 | ‘ How long do we have ? ’ |
| 4 | How long do we try to patch up a failing plan ? |
| 5 | How long did we say for the survey ? |
| 6 | How soon do we abandon it and put together a new plan ? |
| 7 | We all know how beneficial a moisturising routine can be for the skin but how often do we think about moisturising our hair ? |
| 8 | How often do we switch on the television , only half watching it , or get stuck into routines in the evenings that require no conscious thought or effort , leaving the mind free to wander ? |
| 9 | ( When asked how we are feeling , how often do we shrug our shoulders and say ‘ Well , OK , I suppose ’ ? ) |
| 10 | But how often do we listen to a Scottish accent ? |
| 11 | How often do we see a scene on television where , when some help is about to be given to a seriously ill person , the family members present are asked to wait outside . |
| 12 | How often do we reorder , do you know ? ’ |
| 13 | How often do we ask the question ‘ Why me ? ’ when faced with some personal trauma or tragedy ? |
| 14 | And when we watch these films again , fifteen years later , how often do we find ourselves drawn back to the world in which we first saw them ? |
| 15 | How often do we get a technical visit in there ? |
| 16 | Now , how far did we get with that ? |
| 17 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
| 18 | How well do we know Matisse ? |
| 19 | How then do we decide which class to assign a couple to where he is a builder and she is a secretary ( not that uncommon a scenario ) ? |
| 20 | How then do we know that there are other minds ? |
| 21 | How then do we get true beliefs of the sort that we could get by observation ? |
| 22 | How then do we get true beliefs by observation ? |
| 23 | How else do we record ? |
| 24 | How else do we explain to Plant Managers and to Governments that it 's right for the Corporation to purchase products from non-European sources , but it 's wrong to supply European components to the United States because the US divisions would n't like it ? ’ |
| 25 | Yet how else do we explain that ( i ) differences remained between legacies and trusts ; ( ii ) the distinction between them is maintained in practically all of the texts of all jurists other than Scaevola ? |
| 26 | How else do we explain Bukharin 's reference to Lenin 's urgent call for a reorganisation of the Commissariat of Workers and Peasants inspection ? |
| 27 | Bouvard et Pécuchet would have been finished ; Madame Bovary might have been suppressed ( how seriously do we take Gustave 's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book ? a little seriously ) ; and L'Education sentimentale might have had a different ending . |