Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rifkind is keen to explain why the railways should be opened up to competition and dampen all that dreadful speculation in the papers that there is a split between himself and the Cabinet over exactly how they 'll do it . |
| 2 | because he can read the first two books , now how they 'll do it with him , he 'll have to just look at the pictures and he 'll go back to square one , and I 've had him actually writing his words , doing letter formation , A , B , C , D |
| 3 | But it 's mainly to erm present it to this committee , the trial balance sheet , She does n't quite know how to do that and altogether she feels she just wants she says , how she 's doing it now , at least she wants to check out with somebody , is she doing it how they would do it . |
| 4 | By the way , next time a driver blocks an entrance to a property , preventing the people who live there from being able either to get in or out perhaps the driver would like to ask him or herself how they would like it . |
| 5 | I mean I 'd like to see erm I 'd like to see how they would like it . |
| 6 | Er one , in regard to how they would operate it and secondly in regard to what would be expected of them , perhaps if they were attached to one of the older type machines and not the new machines you see . |
| 7 | Descriptivism is the name given to the view that the way people actually use language should be accurately described , without prescription of how they ought to use it . |
| 8 | Farm yes , that 's how they used to do it . |
| 9 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 10 | And the following month they drop you , that 's how they used to do it |
| 11 | That 's how they used to do it Ken |
| 12 | Oh yes , it was marvellous , that 's how they used to make it , in those days . |
| 13 | And take the full tubs out , you see ? that 's how they used to work it . |
| 14 | I do not see how they can justify it . ’ |
| 15 | People must think hard about the job they 're doing ; how they can make it safer . |
| 16 | Then make sure that they know what is there , how they can use it and why they should use it . |
| 17 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 18 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 19 | In this play by new writer Nina Warner Hooke , he acted the public school-educated Biff , who , with his sister , inherits a riding school when their mother dies and ponders how they can run it in their poverty . |
| 20 | The correlation between such unlikely indicators and target markets was not discovered by accident , and marketers who want to get the most out of the results of the 1991 census , which will shortly become available , should be thinking about how they will do it now . |
| 21 | Both are as entitled as any other separating couple to find happiness , though it is hard to see how they will find it with a new partner while remaining married to each other . |
| 22 | How they 'd like it to be . |
| 23 | The far left threw its own policies into the pot of educational change and in the process heightened debate and discussion on what schools should teach and how they should teach it . |
| 24 | The problem was to decide how they could retain it and exercise It . |
| 25 | There 's an unseemly haste among people who do n't have to live on £25 a week to suggest how they could do it better , manage on a minimum and feed the 5,000 . |
| 26 | I 'm I 'm I 'm really surprised how they could do it like that and these flowers would honestly ! |
| 27 | And if you can think of that , you can repackage your particular thing not in terms of your own interests and ideas and so forth , but you can package it in such a way that it 's intriguing , or at the very least , the people who are going you hope will use it can actually see how they could use it . |
| 28 | If only Maxwell could be more … if only they could stay awake … if only Maxwell could be with her at three thirty in the afternoon , when they might do it like the old days … |
| 29 | You never knew when they might need it . |
| 30 | People do n't know when they can get it or not . |