Example sentences of "know how to look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 2 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 3 | He just collected animals but did n't know how to look after them . |
| 4 | ‘ People often do n't know how to look after them and their pet tortoise does n't survive hibernation . ’ |
| 5 | You know how to look after me , girl . ’ |
| 6 | He said , ‘ You are n't fit to have the child , you only know how to look after yourself . |
| 7 | Yeah alright I know how to look after books |
| 8 | You knew how to look after yourself , he said . |
| 9 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |
| 10 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 11 | That strength comes from the fact that Eubank knows how to look after himself in more ways than one . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | ‘ She 's tough , she knows how to look after herself and her interests . |