Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] know how [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 2 | Right that you know how to spell you know how to spell kit like a football kit or your gym kit . |
| 3 | ‘ I wonder ’ , she said , ‘ whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence ? ’ |
| 4 | All I know how to do is write songs , and that 's what I want to do because I would like people to feel as good as I did when I heard a song for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've nothing against aeroplanes landing on stage , but there should be a place for personal musicals , and frankly they 're all I know how to write . |
| 6 | Apart from dogs and cats , we have hamsters , guinea pigs , rabbits , budgies , canaries , cockatoos , Amazon parrots , macaws , African cockatiels , finches and parakeets — I 'm sure you know how to treat them . |
| 7 | I 'm not sure you know how to pronounce it |
| 8 | make sure you know how to get there ( plan your routine in advance ) ; |
| 9 | After the previous evening , too many conflicting emotions seemed to be crowding in on her , and she was n't sure she knew how to deal with them , or indeed , she thought , stepping out of her jogging pants and T-shirt to reveal the figure-hugging jade-green swimsuit beneath , whether there was anything to deal with , other than her own imagination . |
| 10 | and then you can That was very good mountain that 's a good one to know how to spell curtains the same . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's why I do n't like America because that 's all they know how to do . ’ |
| 12 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 13 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 14 | Maybe for those who know how to kill it 's just like talking to strangers on the tube . |
| 15 | Those who know how to listen , will find my whole life embedded there . ’ |
| 16 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 17 | Cos the girls were a little bit different sort of understand , I think Matthew suffered , Matthew was the one that , that had suffered through it , he was four , and he was old enough to understand a little bit more he knew how brushing off on him |
| 18 | Make certain you know how to use them . |
| 19 | By the third she knew how knocked around he was . |