Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , she says that whenever she could persuade her scribe to let her dictate to him , ‘ she was hale and whole suddenly in a manner ’ . |
| 2 | IT was common knowledge the come the new law changes they would almost certainly include the experimental decision to award the put-in following a maul going nowhere to the defending side , so why are we getting so many whingers making their thoughts known whenever they can get their name in print . |
| 3 | Just how much they obtain there from is known only to themselves , but this could well be a final act born of an inextinguishable instinctive knowledge that there is somewhere a source of power available to the individual whereby he can supplement his capacity to face a fading future , or any other of life 's unwelcome experiences , at least with less apprehension , if not with absolute serenity . |
| 4 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 5 | Arrogant bully ! … trying to tell me how I should pass my time and with whom I should pass it . |
| 6 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 7 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got to think how I can have my revenge on Hindley . |
| 9 | You know like when how I used to have my hair |
| 10 | In a large unlined notebook she writes ‘ scripts ’ about how she might describe its behaviour in terms that would at times suit a human being . |
| 11 | Franca had indeed had those fantasies , and continued to have them , of how she would kill her husband , smashing his head with a hammer , plunging a carving knife into his side , drugging him with sleeping pills and suffocating him . |
| 12 | I do n't know how she dare show her face . ’ |
| 13 | Diana regularly asked her flatmates for advice on how she should conduct her romance . |
| 14 | This left her asking herself how she should direct her success and what her responsibilities to society were . |
| 15 | She must , however , comply with a number of detailed ( and by no means straightforward ) requirements contained within the Consolidation Act , which also stipulates precisely how she must exercise her right to return to work after the baby is born . |
| 16 | She told him how she used to dread her time . |
| 17 | The best of these was changing the punctuation in a sentence in your head , seeing how you might shift its meaning by putting a comma in different places . |
| 18 | But I 'd like to know how you would plan your life if you were a Struldbrug . ’ |
| 19 | However , you could usefully add some details as to how you would implement your proposal . |
| 20 | Before moving you will be asked to agree how you will pay your share to the home . |
| 21 | Key concerns are likely to be the question of money and how you will occupy your time . |
| 22 | In the next few pages we explain more about the difficulties which can occur — and how you can protect your business against them . |
| 23 | We also explain how you can revolutionise your eating habits and lead a healthier lifestyle . |
| 24 | The trouble with book titles like this is that the optimism they inspire is fast eroded by the guilt-making subtitle ; in this case ‘ How you can change your lifestyle now … ’ |
| 25 | More than ever it seemed that Doreen wanted to discuss matters that niggled at her mind , even with a stranger , so she turned in her chair to face the other woman and said frankly , ‘ I do n't see how you can blame my aunt . |
| 26 | Then draw up a plan as to how you can maximise their value . |
| 27 | This is exactly how you can build your essay , as a sequence of questions and answers . |
| 28 | British Gas , and the local electricity companies ( from the end of 1990 ) , each have a number of codes of practice , setting out their terms of supply , how you can pay your bill , and the services that they offer . |
| 29 | In Chapter Seven I 'll consider how you can raise your visibility , whether it 's at work , as an entrepreneur or in your community . |
| 30 | DENNIS JENKIN EXPLAINS HOW YOU CAN USE YOUR SPREADSHEET TO WORK IT OUT FOR YOU . |