Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [modal v] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of how I must seem to them , the people I 'd grown to know . |
| 2 | Was that how she would talk to her staff , in that faintly surrealist way ? |
| 3 | What she did n't know was quite what life on a mission station would be like or how she would adjust to it , though it does n't appear to have given her any sleepless nights . |
| 4 | He wanted to see her , to enjoy her puppy-dog welcome , but he kept wondering how she would react to him if he de-programmed her affection . |
| 5 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 6 | He 'd only ever taken Johnnie camping before , and had no idea how she would take to it . |
| 7 | Three visits from her husband had helped , perhaps ( the first in the small hours of the Sunday morning , two hours after his release from custody ) , but some slight complications had arisen with continued internal bleeding , and she had become deeply and embarrassingly conscious of how she must appear to everyone whenever she smiled . |
| 8 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 9 | you thinking how you used to talk to it was great was n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ Can you find out how we can get to him ? ’ said Gurder , his face alight . |
| 11 | How we should respond to them . |
| 12 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 13 | Induction into a subject is also induction into a subject culture or community — into a set of assumptions about how school children learn , how they are best taught , how one should relate to them , and so on . |
| 14 | At an alcove table of the Eagle and Child , Ockleton 's favourite pub , they had then debated the circumstances of Heather 's disappearance on Rhodes and how they might relate to her visit to Oxford more than two months before . |
| 15 | At the very least , both communities should be thinking seriously about the possibility — and how they would react to it . |
| 16 | He seems to be able to predict people 's feelings , and how they will react to something . |
| 17 | As these passages demonstrate , the passive consumption of information and oral commentary is contrasted with characteristically written forms of language use which encourage intersubjective communication by forcing people to imagine , in the case of the journal , what others are doing or , in the case of the letter , how they will react to what is being written to them . |
| 18 | I do n't know how they will respond to my abuse in the chip pan after a few months ' use , but I think they will fare better than other brushes I 've used in the past . |
| 19 | Decide who you want to attend , where they are , how they will get to you and what will appeal to them . |
| 20 | I do n't know how it would appeal to you but we thought it was funny . |
| 21 | When you select an item for a programme , consider how it will contribute to your goal and how it could affect mood and outlook . |
| 22 | So they sat wrapped in their own morbid silences , each harbouring his own private fear about what had happened to the village and how it could happen to them . |
| 23 | People do live in a certain fear of him and anxiety about how he 'll respond to anything done up there in Inniskeen . |
| 24 | She adds : ‘ That encourages a woman to be hopeful things will improve but , unfortunately , there is no way of knowing how he will react to anything . ’ |
| 25 | — he takes his Wife and Bairns with him , a Waggon the size of a Squatters Cabin and all such apparatus as will imcumber [ sic ] him not a little — he has never travelled in the Woods , never salted his rump Stakes [ sic ] with Gun Powder and how he will take to it , will be a ‘ sin to Crockett ’ . |
| 26 | Another famous one is where someone may come to you with a problem ostensibly to enlist your help in solving it . |
| 27 | Well , you know when I used to come to you walk across cos of the trams , Christmas day , all down Argyle Street every a a ev , they were bulging you know ! |
| 28 | I know when I used to come to your dancing classes is n't it ? |
| 29 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 30 | You had no right to be ashamed of me , and I knew that all along , remember , even if you 've only just discovered it , so I did n't see why I should pander to your wish to keep our affair a secret , ’ she confessed defiantly . |