Example sentences of "learn the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. Yeah , I learnt the basics , ollies , carving , just rolling . |
| 2 | But erm you learnt quite a lot , and you learnt the basics very , very thoroughly . |
| 3 | My knowledge of programming is limited to BBC Basic — I am a phonetician by training , but I learnt the basics of programming on a staff development course and then taught myself , using the Manual and advice from staff in the IT centre . |
| 4 | And that four years in rep , I sort of basically learn , I learnt the basics of the trade . |
| 5 | Korn may be seen as in considerable contrast to Reynolds ; he was no Ivy Leaguer , and learnt the principles of economics and entrepreneurship in his parent 's grocery store . |
| 6 | She never learnt the significance of uncertainty . |
| 7 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 8 | ‘ By the way , ’ asked the author , ‘ has Micky Banks learnt the lines yet ? ’ |
| 9 | We learnt the dance and everything , thank God we did n't let that one out of the rehearsal room . |
| 10 | He had become inured to the long , solitary vigils in hotel rooms awaiting the return telephone calls ; learnt the art of never leaving one 's name and telephone number more than once , because ‘ it makes you look desperate ’ . |
| 11 | So she had singing lessons , and both Eva and Margaret learnt the art of speech and drama from a Mrs Rickwood . |
| 12 | Alan , who learnt the art of trial biking at his family home in the hilly countryside of Morar , now holds fifth position in the Scottish Trial Championship . |
| 13 | As a Councillor one learnt the art of politics really , as a young Councillor certainly . |
| 14 | And then they learnt the music later on some of them and |
| 15 | I even learnt the word from him . |
| 16 | Here , his son Joseph learnt the traditions and religion of his own people . |
| 17 | So from then on they learnt the discipline of budgeting and faithfully sent home the pound themselves . |
| 18 | A minority of activists were labelled as ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ and learnt the severity of the party 's disapproval . |
| 19 | He learnt the lesson well , and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work . |
| 20 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 21 | As film viewers , we have learnt this ‘ grammar ’ subliminally , exactly as we learnt the grammar of language subliminally . |
| 22 | And each one had got different letters of the alphabet ion it and that 's how we learnt the alphabet . |
| 23 | Well , I learnt the answer to that in school . |
| 24 | Another exile in Gaul was Ecgberht , son of Ealhmund , who had been driven out by Offa and Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons , and who sought refuge in Gaul ( ASC A , s.a. 836 ) where , according to William of Malmesbury writing in a later age , he learnt the arts of government . |
| 25 | From Toscanini I learnt the phrasing , and the words — always with Italian singers , which was unheard of in Germany then . |
| 26 | Especially Bryony she learnt the colours very very quickly . |
| 27 | Boys became men when they learnt the difference between a Médoc and a Côte de Nuits ( different shaped bottle ) ; and women became women of the world when they found out that , when in doubt , AC Sauvignon and Chardonnay were the wines they liked to drink . |
| 28 | I also learnt the difference between a Helio Courier and a Pilatus Porter , two types of STOL aircraft often used in Ecuador ; the former small and cheap to charter , the latter costing £150 an hour but able to carry a collecting team of three people , with our usual equipment and the 500 litres of petrol needed for a long river trip . |
| 29 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 30 | Well then I went to a private school on Road , two maiden ladies kept that , and we were taught to er walk properly , sit properly , dance , music , learnt the piano there , and embroider , and erm chiefly the educational side of schooling was almost non-existent . |