Example sentences of "[adv] know [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We owe much to the Annales Cambriæ , for example , and would gladly know more of whatever lay behind the Norman chronicler William of Jumièges ' statement that shortly before his conquest of England Swegen visited Rouen and agreed with Duke Richard II that booty taken by the Danes was to be sold through the Normans , who would provide a refuge where wounded men could recuperate . |
| 2 | Although Brihtwine was eventually reinstated after Ælfmær vexed the Sherborne flock , went blind and returned to Canterbury , one would gladly know more of what lay behind this . |
| 3 | Only to know each day that tomorrow one would still have a roof over one 's head , a bed to lie in and food to put on the table . |
| 4 | We can only know these feelings from Hornblower 's own unspoken soliloquies . |
| 5 | You may have got quite friendly now , but she does n't necessarily know all that goes on in Robert 's mind . ’ |
| 6 | There was no way a man was going to browbeat her and he had better know that right now . |
| 7 | Zack knew enough to know all explosive gelatines both look and smell like the harmless confectionery marzipan . |
| 8 | Quite sharp enough to know all about dodging income tax on the odd jobs he does in his spare time . |
| 9 | Nathan is now experienced enough to know that wet feet and the Arctic are a poor mix and is out of the hole like a rabbit . |
| 10 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 11 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 12 | I wish that pressure in the House would prove enough , but I am realist enough to know that change — real change — will only come now if we push from every side . ’ |
| 13 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 14 | He 'd been forty when Dickens died in 1870 , quite old enough to know that , whatever the fuss made over him , Dickens 's private life was hardly on a par with Queen Victoria 's . |
| 15 | To have remained unkissed at twenty-two in this day and age must be a rarity — she was worldly enough to know that , at least . |
| 16 | I said I 've lived lo long enough to know that . |
| 17 | You 've had my rooms searched often enough to know that ! ’ |
| 18 | She had been a scientist long enough to know this is , in practice , how the world works . |
| 19 | He had discovered Oliver weeping in the conservatory and though he remembered his own childhood clearly enough to know this was the likely end to any birthday , it touched and disturbed him . |
| 20 | So know that , if you now refer back to the , the book that I 've given you this morning and if you turn to where it says okay it says stop here do not read on |
| 21 | All right , I 'll try to spell it out : the beginning was the dream — do n't ask , I do n't know , I only know that 's where the word came from — I mean exorcism — that word . |
| 22 | I only know that one for being a decent driver |
| 23 | I said I do n't honestly , I only know that er , erm |
| 24 | In fact , we only know each other because he worked for me — when he was a student . ’ |
| 25 | I only know these two . |
| 26 | So you would know the output rate , or you think you 'd know the output rates but you only know those output rates if somebody bothered to collect them ! |
| 27 | But it seems all too likely that the 21 married women who applied to rejoin the trade and the union in 1919–20 were war widows , although we only know this for sure of three of them . |
| 28 | Here , in ( ii ) , the utterance provides the clue : B has to go to Edinburgh ; thus if A and B are both far from Edinburgh ( and mutually know this ) , so that it will take the rest of the day to travel and do things there , then B is busy today ; sob is indirectly producing a reason why he or she ca n't easily come to see A , and in so doing can be understood to be refusing A's request . |
| 29 | Typically they are geographically mobile , living relatively far away from kin , work and friends ; they separate work from leisure and do not always socialise with the same group of people who all know each other . |
| 30 | And the older people er er I 've obviously known those mor nearly all my life as well . |