Example sentences of "how [verb] [pers pn] know [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How d' ya know if you do n't |
| 2 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 3 | How did he know that I was lonely ? |
| 4 | How did he know that I had n't slept ? |
| 5 | How did he know that the second half would be better ? |
| 6 | How did she know that people had died on the Bridge ? he wondered . |
| 7 | How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary ? |
| 8 | Now for our second problem : how did you know that the second passage quoted in Task 1 was the beginning of a unified , meaningful stretch of language , while the first was just gobbledegook , randomly assembled without reason ? |
| 9 | By the way , Uncle , ’ she added , ‘ how did you know that we 'd gone in ? |
| 10 | But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ? |
| 11 | " How did you know that Sue 's mother was with us last night ? " |
| 12 | ‘ How did you know that it was his van ; there must be plenty of Mini vans about ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ How did you know that it was Matthew and not your son ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ How did you know that letter was going to be sent to me ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How did you know that I was still in the office ? ’ she asked carelessly . |
| 16 | ‘ How did you know that it was the right body ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How — er — how did you know that I lived here ? ’ she muttered as he led her inside the lift , reaching across to push the correct floor button . |
| 18 | And yo yo well how did you know that they 're ready to move then daddy ? |
| 19 | How did you know before you touch the piano ? |
| 20 | Dipak ( S ) : How did you know whether the planes were English or German when you were in the air-raid shelter ? |
| 21 | How did I know that they would say yes so readily ? |
| 22 | How did I know that such-and-such a principle was right , especially when no one there shared it ? |
| 23 | But I do agree that people out there must keep wondering how do they know that we are as , as it were , as slim as we can be . |
| 24 | How do we know that sexual reproduction is responsible for the relative uniformity of species , and that its absence is responsible for the discontinuities between them ? |
| 25 | such as ‘ How do we know that the behaviour of numbers does not somehow change as they become larger ? ’ |
| 26 | Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ? |
| 27 | After all , how do we know that our own picture of Jesus is necessarily right , especially when we realize that we too bring assumptions to faith ? |
| 28 | How do we know that there was an original crime of parricide ? |
| 29 | How do we know that owls are much smarter than chickens ? — Well , have you ever heard of a Kentucky Fried Owl ? |
| 30 | And furthermore , how do we know that relational statements purporting to depict such an order are in fact sometimes true ? |