Example sentences of "how [verb] [pers pn] know [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 How did they know where I was ? ’
2 How did they know where you were staying ? ’
3 How did he know where you were ? ’
4 How did she know where it was ? ’
5 How did you know where I lived ? ’
6 How did you know where I was ? ’ /
7 How did you know where I lived ? ’
8 ‘ N-o-o but — how did you know where I was ?
9 While Luce added a liberal amount of sugar and cream to her coffee a question that had been submerged in her mind suddenly resurfaced , and she queried , ‘ How did you know where I was staying ? ’
10 How do we know where they 've gone ? ’
11 However , there is a debit side as well : how do we know when we have reached the limits of predictability and ‘ bottomed out ’ on the residuum of free choice ?
12 This chain theory collapsed partly through its own incoherence under pressure — how do we know when we have got all the links ? — and partly because of the discovery of past faunas .
13 How do we know when it was written , and the date of the copy we possess ?
14 How do you know when you have an adequate backup ?
15 These examples illustrate the central problem of characterising chromosomal deletions — how do you know when you have identified the target gene ?
16 But how do you know when you 're eighteen , whatever , is a natural teaching ability or merely a wish to try it ?
17 How do you know when you 're getting low on batteries ?
18 How do you know when he wrote it ?
19 Take Lao-Tse 's celebrated question : ‘ If when I was asleep I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly , how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man ? ’
20 How do I know when I 've found a sett ?
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