Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb mod] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Now I 'm going to help you with it and what I suggest we do this morning when I give you these sheets will you please write your name and today 's date at the top of the sheet and I put the date on the board , and then can you please resist the temptation to start , start writing over the rest of the sheet until I 've gone through it with you . |
2 | That way she could buy a little warmth and cheer for Christmas and how would he ever know that she had lied ? |
3 | For direct mail to be carried out cost effectively we must accurately find out who the customers are , what motivates them to buy , and how can we best reach them — in short , planning . |
4 | Certainly he can turn to the school library resource centre for relevant books and audio-visual resources , but how is he to judge their quality and relevance , how can he know what other materials to order , and how can he confidently set about resource production ? |
5 | What are the other person 's business needs and how can you best serve to meet them ? |
6 | What are their main concerns and how can you best meet them ? |
7 | What are the tax provisions for transferring a business to your children on retirement , and how can you best take advantage of the rules ? |
8 | The more he reads , the more certain he is that it 's garbage — and how can you diplomatically conduct a love affair with a poet whose work you view in that light ? |
9 | Surely the whole point about Telecasters is that they 're tough , they 're basic and they sound ace , and how can you really play a Tele if you 're worried about scratching the thing ? |
10 | An old man in the corner sang Where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox , Johnny sang about a thing called love And it 's how 're ya kid and what 's your name and how 'd you bloody know … |
11 | His preaching was an outstanding success , and whatever exceptional divisions Joyce 's work may continue to provoke among his readers , and whatever perhaps less exceptional divisions George Craig 's lecture may create among some of the audience in respect of the substance of his arguments , and how could it not given the generous measure and richness of what he offered , there would be no division on the quality of his craftsmanship and the beguiling nature of his themes . |
12 | If it occurred to Ruth — and how could it possibly occur to Mrs Peterson — that there might be a good reason for this , she dismissed it from her mind at once . |
13 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
14 | How could she and how could she not give it up ? |
15 | What was this spell he was casting — and how could she ever hope to be free of it ? |
16 | ‘ And how could he still live in the houses ? ’ |
17 | And why would she not take her eyes off me ? |
18 | And why should we not think ill of the dead , she wondered suddenly , for they can not hear , word can not be passed to them , they can not be hurt . |
19 | And why should she not come back ? |
20 | And why could they not worship with everyone else ? |
21 | And where would I most like to spend the rest of the day ? |
22 | Was she being judged on what she had learned about the project ; and if so , was n't the teacher being judged on how well he had transmitted knowledge and therefore should he not share the C-grade ? |
23 | But now will somebody please explain to me how the hell I ever got in ? ’ |
24 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
25 | It may well be the case that a social system organized by women would be wonderful , that there would be no war because we would n't have our children killed , that there would be communes and free child care and no VAT on sanitary protection … but how would we ever know ? |
26 | He sent me the first Education sentimentale ; I was not greatly impressed , but how could I not praise it ? |
27 | But how could I possibly love anyone more ? |
28 | But how could it possibly mean ‘ suit ’ ? |
29 | It was one thing to lose your husband to another woman — but how could she possibly compete with the manifold attractions of a fax machine ? |
30 | But how could she possibly have been in danger ? |