Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] know [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case . |
| 2 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 3 | Coming out of the blue as it did , I did not quite know how to reply to such a suggestion . |
| 4 | and I do n't really know where to go to now you see |
| 5 | My dad said he 'd buy me a ticket to fly back to England and David said that he 'd pay him back because he 'd be very happy if I could come back and help him as he did n't really know how to deal with his mother 's grief . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's simply because they do n't really know how to go about it . |
| 7 | That 's one word you do n't even know how to relate to . |
| 8 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |
| 9 | Fielding notes how some constables subsume these negotiating skills under the category of ‘ talk ’ , which gives meaning to their complaint that many younger policemen seem no longer to know how to talk to members of the public ( 1988b : 60 ; also see Holdaway 1983 : 90 ; Southgate 1982 : 11–12 ) . |