Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 2 | Yet I do n't know how to wish her to stay with you for your own reputation 's sake , my dear son , for the world will censure as it lists . |
| 3 | But thanks very much indeed , Patricia from Chipping Norton , and also thanks to my guests ; the Reverend Martin Flatman , the vicar at Saints Mary and John Church in the Cowley Road ; to Pauline Dungate well , I do n't know how to describe you except as a wonderful woman ; Reverend David Brian , the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon ; Sister Jenny , who runs The Porch , a drop in centre for the homeless in the Cowley Road area ; and Lesley Dewhurst from the support group Elmore . |
| 4 | Yes , she does n't know how to work it to begin with but she |
| 5 | She did n't know how to make him understand that , in a sense , she was doing this partly for him . |
| 6 | The software may be wonderful but if the dealer does n't know how to make it work properly how is he going to train your staff and provide support for them ? |
| 7 | And he did n't know where to find her to let her know . |
| 8 | Social Services did n't know where to send me to have the baby . |
| 9 | I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed . |
| 10 | ‘ And what we know how to do we know how to do well . ’ |
| 11 | You just know how to make me feel special do n't you ? |
| 12 | ‘ I think I know how to make him fall in , ’ Little Billy said . |
| 13 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 14 | ‘ At least I know how to get you to kiss me , ’ she provoked softly . |
| 15 | Allied people know how to help you achieve the right look for your lifestyle . |
| 16 | Right that you know how to spell you know how to spell kit like a football kit or your gym kit . |
| 17 | I listen to their stories , and I know when to let them sleep in the shade . ’ |
| 18 | Or if she 'd known where to get it done properly . |
| 19 | By taking elements from the two and learning how to play them live together , it 's what I 'd call a real fusion . ’ |
| 20 | Well they they knew how to do it did n't they ? |
| 21 | Aye you know , holding them on the plank and th passing them to the But the the men that were stowing them , they were regular men on the They knew how to do it see . |
| 22 | Her body knew his touch , just as she knew how to touch him to make his heart beat , feel his pulse quicken . |
| 23 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 24 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 25 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 26 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 27 | While it is not difficult to learn the techniques necessary to enable you to hypnotize other people , the real test of skill and acquired knowledge comes in knowing how to help them deal with their problems once you have done so . |
| 28 | When asked later how he knew where to begin he replied , ‘ I did n't — and Sir Hugh Casson said ‘ Just absorb the atmosphere ’ . ' |
| 29 | If so , beekeepers will have to learn how to control it using technics followed by Continental beekeepers . ’ |
| 30 | I 've told you that , I mean today she was asking , she , she was standing there while I loaded the dishwasher she says I 've got to learn how to do it have n't I ? |