Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do not know how to put pen to paper ! |
| 2 | When O put down the phone at the end of this first call , he did not know how to say goodbye to Boy ; he did not know what name to use . |
| 3 | The remark of Honoré Bouvet , a Benedictine who was a contemporary of both Bromyard and Venette , that no man who did not know how to set places on fire was worthy of the name of soldier , might be cynical , but it was not entirely unmerited . |
| 4 | Although the Andaman Islanders still do not know how to start fire from scratch , wholesale clearing of other parts of the tropics has long been practised . |
| 5 | Fat people 's bodies just do n't know when to say no. for example , it is easy to tell when your body has a fever , is in pain or is tired . |
| 6 | He described Nato as a forum where Western countries would work together to negotiate agreements between East and West and see that they were implemented and verifiable . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I 'd drop round to see Irena after work , ’ she said . |
| 8 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 9 | They have developed a sliding scale charge so that organisations can get together to take advantage of bulk ordering and so save them some of the administration expenses . |
| 10 | One of our first priorities will be to get the 80 staff working in our stores nearby and see how soon we can find somewhere to re-establish business in north London . |