Sentence examples for knew the basics of from inspiring English sources

"We knew the basics" of what we wanted, Mr. Rose said, "but we hadn't gotten down to developing a schedule".

I once knew the basics of popping and locking, and could moonwalk well enough to impress a third grader, but I didn't dare step in.

By the age of 6, she said, she had learned how to use an Uzi submachine gun and knew the basics of first aid.

Still, he knew the basics of the French-Algerian War, and he spoke about the pieds-noirs — French settlers in Algeria who, after independence, fled what they considered their homeland — and the Harkis, Algerian Muslims who supported French rule and were demonized by other Algerians.

And we have been, in different ways, for a long time: National Geographic has a report on the excavation on Göbekli Tepe, a temple in Turkey that is far older, even, than the water in the gold mine, and suggests that we have been spinning intricate cosmologies for longer than many thought — since before we knew the basics of farming.

The next morning I walked to a Bosnian military post and said: 'I would like to help you.' I bigged myself up and said I knew the basics of handling a weapon [from my time in the RAF cadets at Emanuel school]." Ahmad was sent to a small base for international fighters, where he was one of only seven Britons among mostly Arab volunteers who had fought in Afghanistan.

Surely even nonbelievers know the basics of the crucifixion of Jesus and the Masada story.

Trump is a great showman but barely knows the basics of the constitutional system.

Too few parents know the basics of hygiene and nutrition, let alone the benefits of vaccines.

Yet they still know the basics of courtship, competition and sibling rivalry.

Even though we know the basics of the story, Bissonnette takes us on a great ride.