Example sentences of "[pron] know [indef pn] [prep] the [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 6 | That as compared with the one you can put in that you know one at the top one at the side and . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 10 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 11 | What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 12 | Those are the innocent victims , who knew nothing of the serious fraud . |
| 13 | For how could a reader who knew nothing of the original matter — the origin of the Silmarils , the rise and fall of Numenor , the triumphs and ultimate ruin of Gondolin , etc. — find a way in ? |
| 14 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 15 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 16 | The organization claimed membership from all parts of the South , and its membership contained education specialists , lawyers , people from the media , and civil servants , at least one of whom knew something of the existing channels of power and communication between church and state in the national school system . |
| 17 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 18 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 19 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 20 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 21 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 22 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 23 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 24 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 25 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 26 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |