Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to disagree , or to see how she can overcome the problem . |
| 2 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 3 | Then she no longer knew or cared how he looked or what he might be feeling , and surrendered herself totally to the sensation of being in his arms . |
| 4 | They confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious but would not give the woman 's identity or say how she died . |
| 5 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 6 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 7 | I can do that , probably a number of other people can do it too , but the vast majority would n't have the remotest idea what to listen for or know how it is done . |
| 8 | The new law did n't stress how children should learn to speak standard English — or state how they should be taught to read . |
| 9 | They do not give the press or the universities or the churches the right to broadcast respectively the programmes on the news , education or religion , or to determine how they should be broadcast ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 9 ) . |
| 10 | There are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas . |
| 11 | Feel vibration from your own voice through the vibrator ; do n't think about it or analyse how it happens — just let it happen . |
| 12 | It 's important that home owners are recognizing that there is an over- provision of residential care in the county , and that they are responding and diverting some of their resources , or discussing how they may well , er , divert some resources into home based er , packages of care . |
| 13 | For instance , it is easy to get talking about relationships to extremes , and to end up analyzing or discussing how you 're passing the marmalade to each other at breakfast ! |
| 14 | Spectacles are not allowed , so if you ca n't see well enough without them but want to compete anyway you should either get a pair of soft contact lenses or see how you manage without glasses . |
| 15 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 16 | Nor does he specify what kind of effects might be achieved by a reformulation or explain how it achieves those effects . |
| 17 | Does he have to do it twice or explain how he 's done it ? |
| 18 | Others were more positive and planned how they might use the waterways to improve their way of life . |
| 19 | Jonathon made ships downstairs while Uncle Philip constructed his swan and planned how it should be strung . |
| 20 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 21 | He did the courteous thing , of course , and asked how her reading had gone . |
| 22 | After the mother had gone home , Mrs Kelsall bumped into the community midwife , and asked how her client was . |
| 23 | Ronnie saw 49-year-old Mick in Los Angeles and asked how he was coping with the separation . |
| 24 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 25 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 26 | On a casual visit to Costa Rica he blurted out the code name of the secret airstrip , Point West , and asked how it was doing . |
| 27 | But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended . |
| 28 | He sighed after a while and asked how I was feeling . |
| 29 | But she went everywhere else , and wherever she went in house or gardens , the grown-ups smiled and said , ‘ Good day ! ’ , and asked how she was . |
| 30 | The people in shops sent their regards to her aunt through Melanie and asked how she was keeping , as they had asked after Melanie 's mother and also after Mrs Rundle when Melanie had gone shopping in the village . |