Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 2 | People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’ |
| 3 | Usually I did this by writing to people asking if I might come and see them to find out how they were getting on . |
| 4 | New work has looked more deeply into the toxins ' structure to find out how they do their job so specifically . |
| 5 | Children are invited to find out how they trap ants , how they make their pits , what material they use . |
| 6 | ‘ It tells me nothing about my children , and I should n't have to keep contacting the Social Work Department to find out how they are . |
| 7 | Price Waterhouse is contacting the managements of companies on the Unlisted Securities Market to find out how they feel about The Stock Exchange 's plan to close the USM and its effective merger with the Official List . |
| 8 | The best way to find out how they were attached is to chisel away a little plaster next to the rail . |
| 9 | Dickerson and Brown began interviewing kids to find out how they felt about life , pressure and violence , and took the resulting screenplay , ‘ an adult story for kids ’ , he explains , to several studios and a host of big-name producers . |
| 10 | It may also prove helpful to talk to other firms which have relocated to find out how they went about planning and executing the relocation , the problems they faced and how they overcame them . |
| 11 | Talking to other people to find out how they plan to tackle the challenges as well as the opportunities of retirement can be immensely helpful . |
| 12 | The good copywriters of the old school used to wander round council estates with tape-recorders talking to people in their homes to find out how they talked : market research , in the form of group discussions , now provides part of the same service . |
| 13 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |
| 14 | And at any time before approaching the hives he 'd stand back and listen , to find out how they were getting on . |
| 15 | Are we as an authority in contact with equivalent authorities in other member states to find out how they are tackling things ? |
| 16 | Complicated and delicious meals had always found their way to the table , and she had enjoyed them without ever bothering to find out how they were concocted . |
| 17 | Second , they have to work harder than in the past to find out how they are faring in quite basic parts of the curriculum . |
| 18 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 19 | They were also keen to find out how their own school operated and often became involved in practical matters directly affecting their school , such as mounting a campaign for school repairs and refurbishment . |
| 20 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 21 | I hope that other hon. Members on green Benches — we can see mostly green Benches today — will join me in trying to find out how we can avoid the consultant-promoter corrupt relationship . |
| 22 | ‘ She just wanted to find out how her husband died . ’ |
| 23 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 24 | Melanie took the cheque to her aunt to find out how she should deal with it ; her aunt 's hands fluttered in dismay . |
| 25 | ‘ How else are we going to find out how she was killed ? ’ 'It 's a lot of money . ’ |
| 26 | Jane Katsambis , head teacher of the school , will face a variety of questions from the vicar , who wants to find out how she views the school 's role in the community and its relation to the church . |
| 27 | She noticed him , unlike his wife , and she had bothered to find out how he was . |
| 28 | Soon he 'll be free again , back on the street , onstage with just his acoustic guitar or roaming his private kingdom at one with nature , able to find out how he really feels about things . |
| 29 | It also gives the PRO a chance to find out how he can best help that particular journalist , and the questions of background material , samples for photography or testing and in-depth features can all be raised . |
| 30 | I WENT to see Joe Johnson this week because I was fascinated to find out how he was rebuilding his career after the heart attack last year which threatened to stop him playing . |