Example sentences of "how [to-vb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 2 | ‘ Gordon , I do n't know how to thank you for your help , ’ she said . |
| 3 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 4 | Wish she 'd come and tell me how to set ours for a film that 's on about |
| 5 | Literature is not a book on how to study literature , but on how to use it for language practice . |
| 6 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 7 | I could learn procedures and facts for a short time and I knew how to regurgitate them for examinations . |
| 8 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 9 | But they do n't tell you how to prepare you for when they die . |