Example sentences of "know how it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they want to know how it 's spoken and that . |
| 2 | From the moment you sit back in the Orion 's roomy interior , you 'll know how it feels to drive a classic car . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So they do n't really know how it runs do they ? |
| 7 | Oh , I suppose you 've been in love , probably several times , so you know how it feels to hold someone , and perhaps what I 'm feeling is what anybody feels when their life is startled and transformed . |
| 8 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 9 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 10 | you know how it gets rid of the Ts , it gets rid of everything it 's showing there |
| 11 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |
| 12 | When he was forced to leave Arabia his sense of loss was enormous : ‘ As the plane … swung out to sea , I knew how it felt to go into exile . ’ |
| 13 | He knew how it had come to him , and now it was in his hand . |
| 14 | She was so startled that she just stood there like a dummy , and then , before she quite knew how it had happened , her wet sweater had been whipped over her head , a dry towel thrust into her hand and she was halfway into the hall . |
| 15 | He knows how it feels to lose a father at a tender age . |