Example sentences of "i [verb] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found how to do this by accident . |
| 2 | Do I know how to construct chords using extensions and alterations ? |
| 3 | I learnt how to paint a window properly , and tile a loo . |
| 4 | But in the end , I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light . |
| 5 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |
| 6 | And they used to buy me new material to encourage me and I learnt how to sew from that . |
| 7 | I learnt how to occupy myself . |
| 8 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 9 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 10 | I learnt how to make fish , and fruit , and a piece of meat out of wood and coloured paper . |
| 11 | I learnt how to recognise a well-built , stable dugout canoe — it 's no fun capsizing in a fast current with the river bank several hundred metres away . |
| 12 | I learnt how to change the break pads and a wheel . |
| 13 | ‘ I got too technical , ’ he said , ‘ and I forgot how to score . |
| 14 | I think I forgot how to enjoy myself . |
| 15 | Can I remember how to get started in the main thing ? |
| 16 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
| 17 | It 's the only thing I know how to ask , ’ Endill replied . |
| 18 | Its complete opposite , stubbornness , obstinacy , refusal to cooperate , ‘ I know how to do it , but I wo n't ! ’ can also be seen in entire families of different breeding . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I know how to do the same pattern . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I know how to do housekeeping , ’ she says with a touch of irony . |
| 22 | Or Er do n't forget , part of it especially in an exam , erm part of solving er any problem is , Oh , I know how to do this . |
| 23 | I mean it 's a it would be a joy to do it as well cos you think , I know how to do these . |
| 24 | Sort of keep on so that you 're building on that all the time so you think right okay I know how to do capital at the start , full stop at the end , keep that do n't let that go just cos I 'm concentrating on something else . |
| 25 | It 's the only think I know how to do , ’ he confesses . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the only think I know how to do ’ |
| 27 | 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 . " |
| 28 | I know how to do this . |
| 29 | ‘ I know how to do it . ’ |
| 30 | I mean , I know how to do it , it 's just that I do n't know what to do . ’ |