Example sentences of "[pron] know [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 2 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 3 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 4 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 5 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 6 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 9 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 10 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 11 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 12 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 13 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 15 | How do you know which of the thousands of children 's books published every year are best for your own , individual children ? |
| 16 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |
| 17 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 19 | I said well do you know anybody with a good ? |
| 20 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man . |
| 21 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 22 | That as compared with the one you can put in that you know one at the top one at the side and . |
| 23 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 24 | There 's no throttle as you know it on a modern car . |
| 25 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 26 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 27 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 28 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 29 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 30 | She knew it with a dragging certainty . |