Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] know [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 2 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Every time you put some plant material in a book or press , you must have an efficient way of knowing the date on which you pressed those particular items , so that you know when to remove them . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 25 | Landlords say they 're keen to keep their customers , but they also want to make sure that they know when to stop drinking . |
| 26 | The school should ensure that students are well prepared for their Work Experience — that they know where to go and what is expected of them , and that they are confident to ask questions and get full benefit from the placement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |