Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [Wh adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reduces the risk of the defendants in a ‘ labour injunction ’ case being taken unawares , but contains nothing about how the court should proceed when both parties are before it . |
| 2 | Heasked me about how the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme was going and what level I 'd reached |
| 3 | So far , groups of crew have had an induction course and what is called ‘ a long sail ’ , when they spend several days acquainting themselves with the boat and gear , absorbing everything from how the cooker is switched on and how to flush the head to hoisting the mainsail and steering . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know anything about how the flowers appear in the warehouse ? |
| 5 | Moreover , the measure says nothing about how the wealth is distributed ; a country could raise its GNP by expanding capital intensive industries which leave the poorest sectors of that society completely untouched . |
| 6 | However the relation is of interest , because it says something about how the measure might behave under variations in the illumination intensity . |
| 7 | The collected articles were published as Dispatches ( now recently re-issued in a ‘ schools ’ edition , which says something about how the book is regarded ) . |
| 8 | A man on a donkey directed us to where the world began , pointing up a lane between two walls of durra . |
| 9 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 10 | It includes everything from when the hairdresser is coming , to appointments at the hospital or outings to the local theatre . |
| 11 | Thirdly , if no early arrangements can be seen in the form of earthworks , cropmarks or soilmarks , can we still ascertain something of how the land was used in the past ? |
| 12 | You do n't need to assume anything about how the employee thinks or feels . |
| 13 | What does the war against Iraq tell us about how the United States will exercise this unexpected freedom of action in the world ? |
| 14 | On the other hand , for the Type B non-profit , the extent to which income from non-revenue sources such as taxation covers cost is only a very narrow measure of performance : it only measures the extent to which the organization spent what it said it would spend , saying nothing about how the market valued its goods and services . |
| 15 | Can you tell me about how the folks long ago used to do the the pig ? |
| 16 | ‘ Will you tell me about how the body came to be discovered ? ’ |
| 17 | Then they took me to where the police found me . |
| 18 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 19 | Interviewed by police Paterson said he and Bailey had gone to investigate a broken window at the hangar and that he knew nothing about how the fire started . |
| 20 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 21 | ( 4 ) A reasoning question asks the pupils to explain something , e.g. " What does the picture tell us about how the Normans and Saxons fought ? " |
| 22 | Grant had always prided himself on his fitness and worked out regularly in his health club gym , but by the time he made it to where the stone coping of the sloping gable joined the chimney stack , he felt as though every muscle of his arms and shoulders were on fire . |
| 23 | ‘ The board seems to have learned nothing about how the people of Arbroath feel for their own hospital . |
| 24 | Instead , they sensibly decided to avoid disputes and differences by jointly employing one average adjuster to advise them on how the loss should be apportioned and agreed to accept and act on his advice . |
| 25 | Many of you will have already received , at the principal 's request , a copy of the University 's Annual Report 1991–1992 published in February 1993 , to update you on how the University has evolved and grown . |
| 26 | Then , with a smile that set all the butterflies off again , ‘ It 's my intention to take you to where the food is really good , and also show you something of the city by night . ’ |
| 27 | In this case a combination of geological evidence and the evidence of the shape of the animal itself has been used to say something about how the animal lived . |
| 28 | It could be that the cordless power-tool is turning a full circle , representing the original hand-tools without the sweat ; you simply pick it up off the bench and use it , or pack it away in your toolbag and take it to wherever the task has to be done , and do it . |
| 29 | If you think about it , you slide it into where the joint would be along the line of the femur bone , you bend the knee up , and you pull it right up and you rotate it |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |