Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "fiction" ¶ 974
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

knew and how
But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.
Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.
He knew how to shoot down Nazis.
Now he was going to show how much he knew.
He knew exactly how to be colorful!!
He never knew how he got there.
He knew how to channel their exuberant disorderliness so as to transform them from mere plunderers into A-1 guerrilla fighters.
Tom never knew how to condense, to boil down.
After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.
he knew he should get to Cap, but he didn't know how.
Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.
Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.
Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.
And at once Claude saw what the trouble was and he knew just how to correct it.
Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.
It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.
He knew Vince Steiner was one of those men who had to work up a fury once in a while just to prove how dangerous he could be.
Marty knew how the Union soldiers must have felt at Chancellorsville and Antietam and Gettysburg when the ragged gray ranks charged at them, screaming the wild banshee howl they called the Rebel yell.
He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.
`` I knew it all along '', confessed Arnold with a grin, `` but I just happened to think how much nicer it would be to drop one way up there ''.
Henrietta thought, It's extraordinary how much she always knew about both of us.
For Linda knew how to help her husband, not just the Stuart-family contacts but also the little dinners for Reuben Lovejoy.
I no longer knew how deep I was, somewhere under 230 feet, getting drunker, happier and more contented by the second.

knew and important
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
Only a few other people -- very important people -- knew of the nitrogen-mustard eggs nestled below decks.
The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.
Johnston knew he could be trapped at Bowling Green if Fort Donelson fell, so he moved his force to Nashville, the capital of Tennessee and an increasingly important Confederate industrial center, beginning on February 11, 1862.
And, when I began to read the nursery rhymes for myself, and, later, to read other verses and ballads, I knew that I had discovered the most important things, to me, that could be ever.
Madison was crucial in persuading George Washington to attend the convention, since he knew how important the president would be to the adoption of a constitution.
... there was one man who not only united high ability with unparalleled opportunity but also knew how to turn budgets into political triumphs and who stands in history as the greatest English financier of economic liberalism, Gladstone ... The greatest feature of Gladstonian finance ... was that it expressed with ideal adequacy both the whole civilisation and the needs of the time, ex visu of the conditions of the country to which it was to apply ; or, to put it slightly differently, that it translated a social, political, and economic vision, which was comprehensive as well as historically correct, into the clauses of a set of co-ordinated fiscal measures ... Gladstonian finance was the finance of the system of ' natural liberty ,' laissez-faire, and free trade ... the most important thing was to remove fiscal obstructions to private activity.
Geophagy enters the picture when daughters would " follow the diet of a woman that they knew had been successful at giving birth ". The maternal chain can therefore act as an important vector in the continuance of this act.
In 2007, she stated in an interview with Palm Springs Life magazine, “ AmfAR is important to me because I ’ ve lost so many friends that I knew AIDS ”.
The Southern Song knew the importance of this vital spot, and treated the defense of Xiangyang as important as their capital.
It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and: " for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name.
" He concluded that the film " is often a delight " and " is about transformation: About two men who learn how to value something more important than money, and about two women who always knew.
It was then finished by his student Philipp Jarnach, who worked with Busoni's sketches as he knew of them, but in the 1980s Antony Beaumont, the author of an important Busoni biography, created an expanded and improved completion by drawing on material that Jarnach did not have access to.
An important part of the production of the programme was the need to prevent the broadcast of offensive or illegal material by callers who knew that they were being granted an open platform for whatever they had to say before a national audience.
The Indians players knew that Lingo's only goal was to advertise his Airedales and that winning football games wasn't important to him.
However, both sides claimed a victory ; Whitehouse's side asserted that the important legal point had been made with the ruling on the applicability of the Sexual Offences Act, while Bogdanov said it was because she knew that he would not be convicted.
Darlington knew the automobile was becoming a big entity in the 1910s and 1920s, turning the bridge into a vehicular bridge was an important decision to make the most out of the crossing.
I knew that when I was with him I was in the presence of greatness, and my encounter with him was certainly the most important meeting of my life.
He denigrated the eatery when he first visited it in season 2, but when the place was being shut down in season 9, he insinuates it was an important place to him throughout his life and knew the owner since at latest his college years.
" Washington Post editor and later press critic Ben Bagdikian said, " When Seldes was no longer printed by the mainstream press, he was an important conduit to the journalistic community, who knew that there were flaws in the system, but often couldn't get printed in their own newspapers, because the press cannot be a watchdog on itself.
Craxi took 5 more months to realise the full scale of the events, but some important MPs took even longer and by the time they knew, everything was done and they were wiped off the political map and thrown in jail.
A further important difference is that Foundation Degrees, as originally conceived, were to give students with substantial industry experience the opportunity to frame what they knew against appropriate academic perspectives, and were to be accessible by students in work ..
The upcoming World Football League was able to attract some of the most important players from the Dolphins, and the team knew it was the last season playing with Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Paul Warfield.
His reasoning in arriving at this exact date was based on Ezekiel 40: 1, where Ezekiel, without naming the month, says it was the tenth day of the month, " on that very day ," an expression that Thiele knew marked something important.

4.110 seconds.