Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] n't know how " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 2 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 3 | But she has no experience so I do n't know how she 'll make out . ’ |
| 4 | We have been dealing with an agent so I do n't know how he really feels . |
| 5 | And the worst part was that she did n't know how long she was going to have to stay here . |
| 6 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 7 | — An ichor that you do n't know how to tap . |
| 8 | In a long dissertation it might be justified as a way of helping your reader remember your starting point ; in a short essay , however , it is redundant and simply shows that you do n't know how to finish . |
| 9 | It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen . |
| 10 | Such bluntness , such honesty , it was embarrassing ; you were n't prepared for it , so you did n't know how to react . |
| 11 | Open bridging is needed when you have n't yet signed a contract for the sale of your current home and so you do n't know how long you 'll need the bridging loan . |
| 12 | The things is though , I was saying , Are you sure , I mean you do n't know what c contacts made so you do n't know how tall she was . |
| 13 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 14 | The main outstanding issue is that we do n't know how colour-coding receptive fields are constructed out of wavelength-coding receptive fields at other stages in the system . |
| 15 | Eyes do n't fossilize , so we do n't know how long our type of eye took to evolve its present complexity and perfection from nothing , but the time available is several hundred million years . |
| 16 | You asked for a a few , so we did n't know how many you wanted . |
| 17 | Except that they had n't known how bad . |
| 18 | ‘ The thing that surprised me most was that they did n't know how to make a quality tube at AISA and we showed them . ’ |
| 19 | Non-Christians ( if they are honest ) have to say that they do n't know how the world and life was made ; they 've got loads of ideas ( which they call ‘ theories ’ ) but they do not and can not KNOW . |
| 20 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 21 | Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it . |
| 22 | There 's no reporting back , for instance , so they do n't know how well they 've done or what mistakes they make . |
| 23 | And , in addition to having to keep his clothes clean , his body was often too bruised and painful to play apart from the fact that he did n't know how to . |
| 24 | His sons said later that he did n't know how to . ’ |
| 25 | She felt sometimes that he did n't know how spirited she could be , and this would certainly have shown him ! |
| 26 | ‘ Apparently all he said was that he did n't know how he 'd died , but it looked unpleasant . |
| 27 | The best we could hope for is that she 's had a brainstorm , and I do n't know how often that happens outside of books . |
| 28 | And I do n't know how he feels about Mother , either . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I wish to thank you , and I do n't know how . |
| 30 | I have never bought an aspidistra in my life , and I do n't know how they accumulate on the roof — offerings , perhaps , from the garden-boy who looks after it ? |