Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] know how [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I want to know how you look when you smile . ’
2 I want to know how you actually do that .
3 Besides I want to know how she has grown .
4 I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it .
5 I want information , Millet , I want to know how he 's going to cope .
6 I want to know how he 's doing in general and where he needs a bit of encouragement .
7 I needed to know how you felt about the whole topic of drugs . ’
8 Then quickly turning back to her , she said , ‘ But I do know how he feels about you .
9 Oh I do know how he 's feeling .
10 All that remains to be said is incised on stone , and the living go around silently with long faces and glances that mean ‘ I ca n't tell you how sorry I am , but I do know how you feel . ’
11 I think I 've known how you feel for some time now .
12 And Cowan departed with a plea to Portadown to end his uncertainty , saying : ‘ I need to know how I 'm fixed for next season .
13 I got your letter last evening , as I was about to write to you : thank you for it : — I wanted to know how you were going on .
14 ‘ Well , do you want to know how I really caught it ? ’
15 If you want to know how you 're doing with the other person , you need to ask .
16 If you want to know how I could tell that from the seventh floor , you have to remember I 'm supposed to be a detective .
17 If you want to know how I , and , incidentally , Joanna , are so sure that you and Robert love each other … well , it 's in your eyes when you talk to him , in the way he tenses up when he sees you — there 's a magnetism between you that is almost visible . ’
18 She often said in her letters , if only she 'd known how it was going to turn out , she 'd have taken the baby with her .
19 one and a half tapes a day , yeah , it 's , it 's a doddle , but erm , not , not only have you got to know how it functions , but you 've got to know , know you 've got to fill in your , your document
20 You seem to know how it was , the old muscles , it feels like it 's pulling on
21 She wanted to know how it actually goes .
22 If you are going to fly your glider efficiently while turning steeply in thermals with other gliders , you need to know how it will behave at the stall .
23 I recognise that the voluntary sector is increasingly being asked to evaluate its work for its funders , and equally we want to know how we , in I B M , measure up to your expectations .
24 We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated .
25 If an author says that a third of the present holders of dukedoms in Britain have been divorced we want to know how he found this out .
26 His father , David Wilson , said : ‘ We want to know how he died .
27 To decide whether it is successful , we have to know how it was intended to be used and what it was expected to achieve .
28 We need to know how we feel about the sounds because if a certain accent or tone is anathema to us we often instinctively turn away from it , forget it .
29 And we need to know how it might happen that a population could occasionally cross from one side of the knife-edge to the other .
30 I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be
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