Example sentences of "know how we " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is hard to know how we can ever tackle that , ’ one said .
2 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 .
3 It 's important to take time to get to know how we feel about sex , and what gives us pleasure .
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 To know how we speak .
7 I 'm being allowed onto her ecologically correct territory , and no one there will know how we kissed and almost , as good as , made love … but I will and she will .
8 The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it .
9 We were waiting for Alfred to drop he gun , I do n't know how we knew he had one but we knew , and slowly he took it out of his waist and dropped it .
10 ‘ I do n't know how we did it .
11 ‘ I do n't know how we never heard them , ’ Phillis said .
12 I do n't know how we 're going to arrange it , ’ she said lightly .
13 I do n't know how we will manage Tom and Oliver , Kit has her difficult days , you know , but we will do our best .
14 For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert .
15 Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed .
16 ‘ You do n't know how we people of World 's End live , ’ she said quietly , ‘ so perhaps you would do well to stay indoors out of the way of any trouble . ’
17 I do n't know how we 're going to do it , even if we work flat out every day . ’
18 ‘ I do n't quite know how we 'll manage it , ’ Anna said , ‘ But we will , somehow .
19 But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’
20 But I do n't know how we 'd go about that other than just writing to town councils .
21 In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived .
22 I do n't know how we shall get them out , because they are exhausted and probably they will find it difficult to walk .
23 I was oblivious to it all , but I do n't know how we managed , as agriculture suffered along with every other industry .
24 ‘ I do n't know how we 'll survive without him , I really do n't . ’
25 I , I do n't know how we 're gon na get Bob 's fishing rod on the train I 'm a little bit worried about it but erm
26 I do n't even know how we got to be born .
27 I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make .
28 ‘ I do n't really know how we got together — it was so quick .
29 If we had n't had the shop , I do n't know how we could have managed . ’
30 It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen .
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