Example sentences of "we [verb] n't [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed . |
| 2 | But we did n't know how it was going to go , so mentally we set a time limit on it . |
| 3 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 4 | They say , ‘ Oh , we do n't trust how you look after the paintings ’ and so on , but you can be over cautious . |
| 5 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 6 | We do n't know how we got in either |
| 7 | We do n't know how we 're gon na stand . |
| 8 | We do n't know how they do it , but high-ranking females in the best harems , that is those that have the best feeding grounds on run , produce significantly more males than they do females . |
| 9 | What I said to you yesterday , I hinted that there were difficulties we do n't know how they are to be resolved . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't know how he did it . |
| 11 | We do n't know how he died , but presumably it was something he ate or drank . |
| 12 | ‘ But we do n't know how it ends yet , because Sister 's still reading it out to us , ’ said Jennifer . |
| 13 | We know how cars work , but we do n't appreciate how our skeletal machinery works ; we just take it for granted that it does . ’ |