Example sentences of "[verb] know as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 2 | I want to know as much as possible about that young man and his movements . |
| 3 | He still defends their use on the grounds that ‘ For selfish reasons a prison administrator needs to know as much as he can about each prisoner , especially incoming prisoners . ’ |
| 4 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 5 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |
| 6 | This has obvious consequences for the use of the infinitive : since operative know evokes the following of the infinitive 's event from beginning to end through direct experience , there is no way to conceive know as existing before the beginning of the event perceived , and therefore no to before the infinitive . |
| 7 | ‘ Samson would n't like to know as th 'd got all high and mighty working in such a grand place . ’ |
| 8 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you should get to know as many people as you can the further up the business you are , ’ he says . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope these questions wo n't seem offensive but we need to know as much as possible about the family . |
| 11 | If they 're going to find out Paul Gray 's killer they need to know as much as possible about his movements near to the time of his death . ’ |
| 12 | I need to know as soon as possible now whether we can do these surveys or not so I can fill the policies in . |