Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does not want to know how little she weighs . |
| 2 | Most importantly , partners who do not want to know how technology works or to learn how to use computers must be able to call up all the necessary client and administrative information they require . |
| 3 | As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease . |
| 4 | Investigations of family background provides some disturbing records but readers of high-class fiction do not need reminding how often , with the help of professional psychology , the distressed have been cheered up by facing past memories of ill-treatment . |
| 5 | You may say ‘ Surely I do not need to learn how to listen , I have been doing it all my life . ’ |
| 6 | The Laureate plunges into Eliade , he flirts with Wrestling Jacob and the Grail , he is in love with the idea of ideas , but he does not appear to grasp how organised research should be carried out . |
| 7 | To say we were physically exhausted does not begin to describe how we felt when we finally made it , and it was only a small consolation to hear that we would not start until 9 am the following morning . |
| 8 | We can not begin to imagine how we could force our readers to return their newspapers , or how the collections could be organized nationwide . " |
| 9 | Cathy could not avoid realizing how serious it was , and sat by his bedside day and night , looking sad and pale . |
| 10 | It was growing dark , but Gabriel and the other men could not avoid noticing how Boldwood looked at her . |
| 11 | But you can not avoid explaining how the coming of relativity and then of quantum mechanics influenced thinking on the electromagnetic field . |
| 12 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 13 | With the vision of Robert Emmet and the crucifix in mind , could the PIRA not stop to ask how they — or any of the rest of us for that matter — may redeem the bitter legacy of centuries by adding to it ? |
| 14 | Right I think you have missed the point or may not have understood how we deal with the business of this congress . |
| 15 | Children may know that clothes dry on a washing line or in a tumble dryer , but may not have asked how or why . |
| 16 | The light was poor in the Collector 's bedroom and Fleury might not have noticed how red and swollen his face was , had the Collector not presently fallen sideways , rapping his head on the floor . |
| 17 | Jasper knew she was pretending , though he could not have said how he knew . |
| 18 | And , even then , he could not have foreseen how ferocious this would be , particularly over his style of Premiership , a matter over which he was already vulnerable . |
| 19 | However , you may not have realised how low the surrender value was likely to be . |
| 20 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 21 | You know , Wilson , you know , you can not have forgotten how it is . |
| 22 | ‘ But I will not have forgotten how to listen in Greek ? ’ |
| 23 | The child may be very obstinate and self-willed and the parents may not have learned how to manage the child 's general behaviour . |
| 24 | We have schemata for action , for example : we do not have to replan how to get dressed every day ; for many of us , the decision about what shoes to wear is quite enough of a problem for one morning . |
| 25 | For example , children may have heard musical instruments but may not have considered how the sounds are produced or transmitted through the air . |
| 26 | All this about Fenna was entirely true , but she would not have said it , would not have known how to shape such sentences . |
| 27 | However , had he done so , I would not have known how to find Woodbrook . |
| 28 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 29 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 30 | Mrs Shapland did not wish to disclose how much she received but was clearly not unhappy . |