Example sentences of "and [verb] how [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 2 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 3 | That is , going through various categories — education , qualifications , experience , etc. , and seeing how they match up with the picture of the ideal candidate which you built up . |
| 4 | ‘ We learn by just popping things in and seeing how they do . ’ |
| 5 | She carries on investigating her new present and seeing how it works . |
| 6 | We 'd set on living together , and seeing how it worked out , with or without the baby . |
| 7 | Well you start going for the paper and seeing how you like walking right under the ! |
| 8 | The obituaries published in Britain , on the Continent and in America all acknowledged him as the originator of military precision dancing and reported how he had dominated a whole era of show business . |
| 9 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |
| 10 | The critic Richard Buckle accompanied them and described how they sat in the stalls of the empty theatre afterwards while Balanchine told them ‘ what he liked and did not like about it and how it could be improved ’ . |
| 11 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | So I went to meet her without my make-up on and demonstrated how I made myself up . |
| 13 | Despite his overall fatigue and discomfort , Mark wore it proudly and explained and demonstrated how it worked to everyone involved in his care . |
| 14 | Despite his overall fatigue and discomfort , Mark wore it proudly and explained and demonstrated how it worked to everyone involved in his care . |
| 15 | They compared her , in advance , to similar women in the States who had manifestly succeeded but when they interviewed her , and found how she differed from the stereotype , they were even more intrigued . |
| 16 | Creed was showing some of the pieces to the tourist and explaining how they worked . |
| 17 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 18 | Trivers imagined that reciprocal altruism would evolve in species capable of recognising individuals and remembering how they behave , and of behaving differently towards different partners . |
| 19 | These are examined with the intention of establishing a ‘ vocabulary ’ of Unionism and to chart how it changed over the period as a whole . |
| 20 | Mellor grasped the nettle and told how he felt like Daniel in the lion 's den . |
| 21 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 22 | Last year , Thomas asked for a Mental Health Review Tribunal — and told how he had staged his madman act . |
| 23 | Try to code the acts according to the Sinclair and Coulthard system and show how they combine into motives and exchanges . |
| 24 | I would suggest that a more natural and more effective approach would be to reverse this traditional pedagogic dependency , begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective . |
| 25 | Here we shall state the more physically understandable aspects of the theory and show how it relates to the classical theories of elasticity . |
| 26 | The purpose of this book is to survey present knowledge of parasite metabolism and show how it reflects adaptation to a particular environment . |
| 27 | He had been watching young chicks , he said , and noted how they explored their environment by pecking at crumbs or other small objects , including their own droppings , but quickly learned to distinguish edible from inedible items . |
| 28 | As well as confronting the child and recording its responses in the normal way , they also walked up to its surprised mother and noted how she behaved . |
| 29 | What the court must do therefore is take into account all the relevant factors and consider how they affect or are likely to affect the child . |
| 30 | We shall discuss it in a variety of ways throughout the chapter and consider how it differs between theoretical frameworks . |