Example sentences of "know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 32 | ‘ So I want to know how the investigation is getting on . |
| 33 | She strongly objects to the chimps ' tea party in Brooke Bond tea ads : ‘ I still want to know how the chimps are made to move their mouths like that . |
| 34 | He wants to know how they live , how they think . |
| 35 | These questions included : ‘ I want … to know how to increase provision for young people at risk in my organisation … to raise consciousness about young people on the agenda of my church … to change the attitude of Christians to that of the discipline of compassion . ’ |
| 36 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 37 | Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s . |
| 38 | It would be interesting to know how Mr Bishko 's shareholders feel about the future . |
| 39 | Reading Unamuno , I found this passage which gave me comfort among all the mockery : ‘ The greatest height of heroism to which an individual , like a people , can attain is to know how to face ridicule . ’ |
| 40 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 41 | Do you happen to know how old it is , for example ? ’ |
| 42 | She did not dare to look over the edge : she did n't want to know how far the water had risen . |
| 43 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 44 | If you want to know how how far they can go , read The Leading Edge , an occasional bulletin published by the Nevada Aerial Research Group that generally carries at least 15 of the biggest stories in the history of mankind in each issue . |
| 45 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 46 | He wanted very much for her to know how much he loved her , so he had called her ‘ Mam ’ , then ‘ Angel ’ , and now ‘ Sweetheart ’ , because it made her happy . |
| 47 | It was not necessary for Quincx to know how Lazar had humiliated her , she thought . |
| 48 | It is hard enough , as we have discovered , for people to know how to behave as a bereaved person . |
| 49 | North himself seemed to know how he might go over , if not precisely the scale of it . |
| 50 | The barber in his turn was equally taken aback — we were all English , were n't we , and wanted to know how England was doing ? |
| 51 | Mackie came through from having breakfasted with Perkin saying she wanted to know how the trial had gone . |
| 52 | I am sure you are well-meaning , but I wanted you to know how I feel . |
| 53 | A committee was appointed to report on the situation in 1901 because Conference wanted to know how to secure candidates ‘ of higher educational proficiency and others of special promise ’ and they wanted the committee 's views on the ‘ desirability of raising the standard of the examinations for the ministry ’ as well as the possible need to give candidates ‘ a more thorough training … and a more complete equipment ’ . |
| 54 | Thus suppose we have two existing species , and would like to know how long ago their ancestral lineage split into two . |
| 55 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've been here long enough to know how it works . |
| 57 | He wants to know how I discovered the Old Rectory . |
| 58 | ‘ It is hard to know how we can ever tackle that , ’ one said . |
| 59 | From both the training and farm point of view it was important to know how easily release could be obtained from the off-farm job . |
| 60 | It was difficult to know how this could be rectified . |