Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb mod] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | How may it speak to us , as it was designed to speak to Torquatus the Roman ? |
| 2 | If you ask such a child " How should we respond to the aliens ' request for help ? " s/he 's not likely to respond very articulately . |
| 3 | How should anyone go to death eagerly ? |
| 4 | How should it respond to these various invasions of physical integrity , a quality which is highly valued by most citizens ? |
| 5 | But how should you react to a new book published by a boy who 's just TEN years old ? |
| 6 | How 'd you come to this pass , my child ? ’ |
| 7 | No one spoke as we approached them , but as soon as we had gone by , a voice said , ‘ How 'd you like to be turned out of your home , Missus ? ’ |
| 8 | How 'd you like to be tour manager for a major interplanetary cabaret troupe ? ’ |
| 9 | How could they stick to it , though , once they were under a sergeant-major , a trained bully , lashed to a gun carriage and flogged to pieces ? |
| 10 | How could one bear to be on the sidelines ? |
| 11 | But how could she explain to Drew ? |
| 12 | How could she explain to this man that she did n't even know their full names , let alone their addresses or telephone numbers ? |
| 13 | How could she explain to her mother how she really felt ? |
| 14 | How could she go to Miss Fazackerly and say , ‘ I 'm sorry but we do n't want to stay with Mr Evans any more because he caught Nick stealing his biscuits ? ’ |
| 15 | And how could she go to her only daughter 's wedding in an outfit that somebody in that church would surely recognize ? |
| 16 | As well as that , how could she admit to Bella that she had seen the money hidden in the drawer ? |
| 17 | But how could she admit to them after all she 'd said ? |
| 18 | How could she lie to him ? |
| 19 | How could she apologize to a man for being married to someone else ? |
| 20 | HOW COULD you refer to Banana Splits catch-phrases ( ‘ Spacehoppers , Spangles and The Golden Shot ’ , June ) without mentioning the all-time classic from the Arabian Nights cartoon , ‘ Size of an elephant ! ’ ? |
| 21 | How could I pretend to be the King any longer ? |
| 22 | How could I dictate to some amanuensis all the love I feel for my darling Lily , the loveliest flower … . |
| 23 | But how could I explain to a man shaking with fury that it was candy-floss I did n't like , and crowds , and being with him ? |
| 24 | How could I get to my study to take the drug ? |
| 25 | How could he explain to the old woman sitting opposite him that he wore a five thousand pound watch ? |
| 26 | How could he pretend to be planning for Sarah Chester Fabrics ' future , and all the time plotting its demise ? |
| 27 | How could he get to prison ? |
| 28 | How could he report to his girls the tortures he knew happened in the city prison ? |
| 29 | But that was wholly unreasonable for when papa had died Craig was still under suspicion of fraud , how could he come to her ? |
| 30 | How dare you pretend to be attracted to me ? |