Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he or she know how to do it ? |
| 2 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I worked on farms for a while before I joined my present company , so I know how to handle a tractor ! |
| 9 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 10 | She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa . |
| 11 | How well she was coming to know them : the Mid-day Demon of Accidie who dulled her mind and drained the words of meaning ; the Seraph-Serpents , ever hot upon his heels , whose bite flustered her to panic and anxiety ; then , by dark , the Ochim — doleful screech-owls whose appetite always demanded more than she knew how to give . |
| 12 | Just enough to make sure Okay , maybe not a difficult as that one was , just enough really to make sure that you knew how to do the calculations . |
| 13 | If you know what your aims are ; if you make sure that you know how to memorise and recall ; if your reviews are effective , with good concentration , you may feel yourself well on the way to becoming a successful student with a bright future . |
| 14 | When children injure themselves , it is important that you know how to give the right first aid treatment , quickly , quietly and with lots of reassurance to the child . |
| 15 | Your forbearance is a weapon that you know how to use all too well . ’ |
| 16 | Are you sure that you know how to use the Ctrl and Alt keys ? |
| 17 | How could I forget that you know how to do most things , short of open-heart surgery ? ’ |
| 18 | We must assume that you know how to express yourself in sentences . |
| 19 | It is vital , therefore , that you know how to stretch properly and safely . |
| 20 | You know a lot more words than you know how to spell do n't you . |
| 21 | And making a load of hay especially , you had to work it , roll every pitchfork you had , roll it and set it properly so that you knew as you now then you must have numbers on them so you know how to unravel that lot . |
| 22 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 23 | Vintage wines need not be complicated or pricey — once you know how to choose . |
| 24 | once a , well once you know how to do it it 's easy . |
| 25 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 26 | If , as I have argued , it is normal and typical of human beings to have basic impulses to assist other creatures in distress , to find them appealing to view , and in some cases to enjoy their close proximity ( infants reach out naturally towards a puppy but get agitated by wasps or beetles ) , it does not follow that we know how to treat them . |
| 27 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 28 | The media seem unwilling to publish anything that might challenge the certitude with which editors , politicians , judges and others insist that we know how to increase measurable intelligence or that test data ‘ prove ’ , to use The New York Times 's word , that a poor environment causes familial retardation . |
| 29 | The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at . |
| 30 | And Maxine goes it is good pe , erm a lot of children should be like him so they know how to defend theirselves . |