Example sentences of "how [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did they keep , how did they stop the flaming thing from snaking them all , you know ? |
| 2 | SO HOW did they break the news to a joyful populace , eagerly waiting to hear the outcome of Margaret Hilda versus The Fossil ( © the Sun ) ? |
| 3 | How did they make the stuff hold all that water ? |
| 4 | How did they choose the firm ( eg the reputation of the firm , of a practice area , or of a particular lawyer ; personal association ; referrals from current or former clients , or professional agencies ) ? |
| 5 | What did the Ministry expect , how did they think the men would react ? |
| 6 | did erm on race days , how did they organize the races ? |
| 7 | How did they alert the firemen on at the station ? |
| 8 | Children will also begin to classify ( … two of the irons are similar because they both could be heated on a fire … ) , and they can be encouraged to make and test hypotheses ( for example , how did they heat the flat iron ? |
| 9 | Given this history of production abuse , how did they find the right producer for ‘ Hype ’ ? |
| 10 | ‘ And how did they get the car across here ? ’ asked the Substitute , slowing to put a flame to a freshly filled pipe . |
| 11 | How did they get the message down to the port here that a boat would be coming in ? |
| 12 | Now just how did they get the skates to do that ? |
| 13 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 14 | Who sent these orders and how did they cross the Forth ? |
| 15 | that funnel right now how did we control the speed at which the acid went in . |
| 16 | But for the other versions , the questions would be : ( 9 ) how did he paint the general ? how does she want to play the character ? |
| 17 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 18 | Er how did he expect the poor the people to live and pay mortgage and er , you know all this and that on dole money ! |
| 19 | ‘ How did he handle the questions ? ’ |
| 20 | But how did he choose the initial state or configuration of the universe ? |
| 21 | And how how did he get the coal ? |
| 22 | How did he know the radio wavelength to set it off ? |
| 23 | How did he know the radio wavelength to set it off ? |
| 24 | How did she get the part ? |
| 25 | ‘ How did she see the car ? ’ |
| 26 | How did it reach the Seychelles ? |
| 27 | How did it affect the way the story about the fight is told , for example , or the uses to which the unofficial communique was put ? |
| 28 | How did you do the ha ha then ? |
| 29 | How did you make the connection ? ’ |
| 30 | H how did you view the prospect of working with Sergeant ? |