Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know how " in BNC.
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| 1 | skipped half the stages or you know how do you feel when he 's working on the board and he skips several lines ? |
| 2 | Does he or she know how to do it ? |
| 3 | He or she knows how , and can be trained , to manage fellow employees ; helping people to manage themselves is an essential core of management and managing relationships between people has to be concerned with always taking account of their attitudes and capacities . |
| 4 | There are some good points — like explaining that everyone knows how to keep their balance and that normal balance should be used when skiing . |
| 5 | Aaron Wildavsky argued that while PPBS had many shortcomings , the fundamental reason for its demise was that no-one knew how to do programme budgeting . |
| 6 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
| 8 | When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " . |
| 9 | I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . " |
| 10 | I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are . |
| 12 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 13 | That I know how but I bought it |
| 14 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 15 | He says : ‘ People still talk about the shot from Kenny Dalglish that went through my legs at Hampden Park in 1976 when Scotland beat England , so I know how Bobby must have felt . |
| 16 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 17 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 18 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 19 | I worked on farms for a while before I joined my present company , so I know how to handle a tractor ! |
| 20 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 21 | I played against Wayne Biggins , who had a tremendous game , so I know how much I 've got to learn to compete at the highest level . |
| 22 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 23 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 24 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 25 | On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use . |
| 26 | Essentially the message is that nobody knows how far community care can be made to stretch without snapping under the strain . |
| 27 | Those " do n't come any closer 'cause you know how much I love you " feelings , Those " tell me that you love me , oh you did I got ta run now " blues . |
| 28 | She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa . |
| 29 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 30 | 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 . |