Example sentences of "that [pron] knew how [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aaron Wildavsky argued that while PPBS had many shortcomings , the fundamental reason for its demise was that no-one knew how to do programme budgeting . |
| 2 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 3 | On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use . |
| 4 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 5 | She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |