Example sentences of "know [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Betty and Lydia found this odd and wanted to know how they 'd managed . |
| 2 | He did not want his girlfriend to know how he had deceived her with another woman . |
| 3 | He describes an extraordinary incident when , after top police officers had left , other men involved in the torture spoke to him , wanting to know how he had resisted . |
| 4 | They were burning to know how he had got on in New York , and Isobel asked him . |
| 5 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 6 | Local reporters were keen to know how he managed to carry out his civic duties , to which Mr Snyder replied blithely that fellow committee members sat beside him during screenings and gave a running commentary ‘ to fill me in when the screen goes silent ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't know how they came to send me there . |
| 8 | think were erm well to be quite truthful I do n't know how they managed to exist on it and have a little bit for the occasional treat , erm or to have a a packet of cigarettes or whatever . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 10 | I do n't know how he failed to score ( okay the keeper stopped it ) but maybe he should have wellyed it a bit more . |
| 11 | She did n't know how he had forced that admission out of her , she only knew it was something she had to say . |
| 12 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 13 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 14 | ‘ Apparently all he said was that he did n't know how he 'd died , but it looked unpleasant . |
| 15 | and I do n't know how he managed to fit it in er but some people manage it erm it means that sometimes you , you know , you 're very time limited on , on , on writing things and you do n't put in something that you feel does justice to yourself , you know , you put in what you think of as crap and , and you know mm |
| 16 | You must have given the driver some bribe , Edward , I do n't know how he managed to help me at all , he was terrified of being caught . ’ |
| 17 | Those of you who remember Fred will know how he worked to start the British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association as far back as nineteen seventy two . |
| 18 | I do n't know how I managed to turn the corner without bumping into something ! |
| 19 | The doctors said they did n't know how I managed to carry on in such pain . ’ |
| 20 | So that 's me got four and I 've got another five to do and I had a telephone call from field controller in Edinburgh last night and I really do think I do n't know how I managed to keep my tongue still . |
| 21 | I do n't know how I 'd dared drive down them narrow roads |
| 22 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 23 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So we put ten five pound notes round this very big table and then we 're saying now you 've a hundred and fifty people I do n't know how you managed to get into this room . |
| 26 | Mother was really a good cook but that oven was not exactly reliable — indeed , I do not know how she managed to get such nice things out of it . |
| 27 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 28 | He did n't say anything , but she could imagine the ranging of his thoughts — how he himself had tried to talk her into something , though he could n't know how she had stonewalled past the point where she knew what she was doing . |
| 29 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 30 | Even now , she did n't know how she had managed it . |