Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] knew how " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 2 | She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa . |
| 3 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 4 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 5 | Now that she knew how despicable Robert Sheldrake was , she would fight him with every method at her disposal . |
| 6 | How well she was coming to know them : the Mid-day Demon of Accidie who dulled her mind and drained the words of meaning ; the Seraph-Serpents , ever hot upon his heels , whose bite flustered her to panic and anxiety ; then , by dark , the Ochim — doleful screech-owls whose appetite always demanded more than she knew how to give . |
| 7 | Just enough to make sure Okay , maybe not a difficult as that one was , just enough really to make sure that you knew how to do the calculations . |
| 8 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 9 | But it could also be used to dismiss the claims , even of empiricists , that they knew how nature works . |
| 10 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't deny him the right to use whatever symbols he wants as an artist , but as a friend I was disappointed that he knew how inflammatory that would be to a Madness audience . |
| 12 | Slightly bemused , she realised that the businesslike urgency appeared to be entirely on her side , in spite of the earlier impression that he knew how busy she must be , that he had no wish to waste any of her valuable time … |
| 13 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |
| 14 | Huy knew something about papyrus , having spent most of his life writing on it , and had managed to convince the man that he knew how to make it , without giving away too much of his true background . |
| 15 | I am a business man and I knew how marketable he was . |
| 16 | Though I say it myself , your mother and I knew how to throw a party . |
| 17 | I could learn procedures and facts for a short time and I knew how to regurgitate them for examinations . |
| 18 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 19 | I felt sure I would never see poor Glumdalclitch again , and I knew how sad she would be to lose me . |
| 20 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 21 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If I knew how I meant I should n't be asking you to design it , because that 's what design is , knowing how you mean . |
| 23 | If I knew how to make copies of myself , I 'm not sure that I would give the project high priority in competition with all the other things I want to do : why should I ? |
| 24 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 25 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 26 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 27 | Eva wanted to do more of this ; she discussed furnishings and house decoration with the better-off ones — they were always buying new places in the country , these people , and she knew how to make herself useful . |
| 28 | She possessed power and she knew how to exercise it . |
| 29 | She was back in the present and she knew how best to fill every moment of it . |
| 30 | This was an acting voice and she knew how to use it . |