Example sentences of "know how [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 2 | He is , however , frequently contacted by landowners who want to know how they can make better use of their trees . |
| 3 | They can be irritatingly slow to publish , and it is often difficult to know how they spend their time . |
| 4 | He wants to know how they live , how they think . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Want to know how they did it ? |
| 7 | And it is difficult to know how they will be heard . |
| 8 | Moving from a low cost to a high price housing area will be of concern : employees will wish to know how they can be helped to meet increased payments . |
| 9 | And they wanted to know how they could immunize themselves , so that they would not succumb in their turn . |
| 10 | Parents really do want to know how they can bring their children up to understand , very simply , what is right and what is wrong . |
| 11 | Customers are entitled to know how they will benefit . |
| 12 | Both Betty and Lydia found this odd and wanted to know how they 'd managed . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be interesting to know how they got it , ’ he said . |
| 14 | We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 16 | I still like to know how they staple it . |
| 17 | One of the things we are doing during International Women 's Celebrations is we 're putting on a jobs and training opportunities fair , in Templar Square in the middle of Cowley Centre erm on the fifteenth of March between ten and four , so any women who want to know how they can get back to work , or what training opportunities there are available , are welcome to come . |
| 18 | ‘ It is hard to know how we can ever tackle that , ’ one said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's important to take time to get to know how we feel about sex , and what gives us pleasure . |
| 21 | Now , no doubt your predecessors , and certainly mine , would be astonished to know how we can meet in this way , but I wonder whether they 'd approve ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To know how we speak . |
| 24 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 25 | North himself seemed to know how he might go over , if not precisely the scale of it . |
| 26 | ‘ I know that Ella and Dimity — everyone in fact — will want to know how he is and would like to call , but they do n't wish to intrude at a time like this . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If he compiled this piece of information himself we have the right to know how he did it . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | They were burning to know how he had got on in New York , and Isobel asked him . |