Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He assures his readers that he knows how righteous they are : |
| 3 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 4 | Your forbearance is a weapon that you know how to use all too well . ’ |
| 5 | I think it 's very interesting th that you know that has raised this point that you know why could n't the parish council come to us ? |
| 6 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 12 | and er sh , you know the test before they could become officers they set captain set the table , you see the and they have this food that they know how , how to use the cutlery , this was one of the tests of being an officer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 15 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 16 | 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 … |