Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read in the ministerial journals — the Secretary of State for the Environment will certainly know about it — that the Minister of State said that , once a person is in a band , his property would be in it probably for perpetuity . |
| 2 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 3 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid you 'll have to wake up to the fact that that kind of man from that kind of a family would n't know the meaning of love . ’ |
| 5 | Those two along the corridor will then know exactly what kind of a father they have , and about the slut you keep on the side under cover of the club nights . |
| 6 | A child putting a straw into each of the bottles in the crate will not know whether he has enough straws for bottles until he has distributed them one-to-one . |
| 7 | The man or woman in the street can not know their leaders personally . |
| 8 | ‘ DISAPPEARED ’ people around the world may not know it yet , but 28 of them were recently ‘ twinned ’ with British celebrities as part of the publicity for the Day of the ‘ Disappeared ’ , held on 18 July at The Garage , Kings Road , London . |