Example sentences of "[vb past] how [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was room for both science and religion since the Bible taught how to go to heaven , not how the heavens go . |
| 2 | There was a man , he said , who knew how to deal with jockey 's injuries . |
| 3 | The Japanese had been trained in jungle warfare , and knew how to trek across country and live on the jungle . |
| 4 | That the provision of egalitarian welfare was also implicitly a means of social control emerges clearly : ‘ The Peruvian government knew how to hold in check passions destructive of the social order and to prevent the revival of primitive anarchy . |
| 5 | His equipment was state-of-the-art , though , and he knew how to write about sea-angling . |
| 6 | STEELFACE KNEW how to get to City Hall . |
| 7 | Darlington Civic Theatre THE Heather Brothers ' musical knew how to pull at heart strings of those who have felt first love . |
| 8 | He did , however , have one quality which proved to be an asset to his country — he knew how to win by craft and diplomacy what he could not gain by force . |