Example sentences of "know how use " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 2 | When learners look up a word or phrase they need to know what it means , but they also need to know how to use it . |
| 3 | Before you can measure or draw a line exactly you have to know how to use a ruler properly . |
| 4 | The antidote is to know how to use prepositions . |
| 5 | " The student did not seem to know how to use the library ; he was mooning about the shelves instead of consulting the index . " |
| 6 | ‘ It is n't part of the clergy 's pastoral duties to know how to use fingerbowls , ’ he said testily . |
| 7 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 8 | Ho however that wo n't be the case for all erm computer programs we use , right , as a result we will need to know how to use er T tables tables and tables . |
| 9 | so I got , I got to know how to use them by then then then erm while I 've got older dad got another piece of ground what he 's given up now |
| 10 | The vast bulk of mainstream manufacturers in this country do n't know how to use our designers . |
| 11 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 12 | Does he know how to use it ? |
| 13 | Of what value after all is a power which one could never use , or at any rate did not know how to use ? |
| 14 | She did n't know how to use it and I did n't want my memory wiped . |
| 15 | Ernest Thesiger gave me that silly corkscrew and I do n't know how to use it . |
| 16 | She would n't know how to use a real weapon ( fnar fnar ) , so they sent me a to sharpen my axe on this month 's adventure offerings . |
| 17 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |
| 18 | — Do you know how to use the zero counter ? |
| 19 | Why should people have money if they do n't know how to use it ? |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't know how to use it . ’ |
| 21 | I , I , I do n't know how to use WordPerfect and I hate , I occasionally have to . |
| 22 | At the time of the Vatican conference , I did not know how to use the " no boundary " idea to make predictions about the universe . |
| 23 | ‘ I imagine Marr does know how to use a finger bowl . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't know how to use a sword , ’ he wailed . |
| 25 | The Government are not about to hand out dollops of money so that inexperienced people can buy complicated equipment that they then do not know how to use . |
| 26 | ‘ He says that of all people who would know how to use best this money , it 's you . ’ |
| 27 | Stories , much enhanced in the retelling , circulated about dirty , lice-ridden children who were ignorant of the basic rules of civilisation : the entire stock of clothing of a girl evacuee from Liverpool might consist of a light cotton dress and a pair of plimsolls ; evacuees did not know how to use a knife and fork properly ; they displayed an alarming ignorance of the joys of country life , being surprised that apples grew on trees and not in boxes ; and , worst of all , their lack of toilet training extended way beyond mere bed-wetting ( which , it was alleged , took place frequently ) to unimaginable depths of depravity . |
| 28 | Then again , it 's much more likely that I just do n't know how to use these things properly . |
| 29 | Yes , she would know when to use her charm and warmth , she would know how to use her will-power right vibes when they appear . |
| 30 | He washed his jeans in the bath as he did not know how to use the washing machine , Mr Burke said . |