Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] know [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
2 | She already knew from the sour expressions of the French wives among the gathering and the open admiration in the eyes of their sallow , perspiring spouses that she had achieved an outstanding success with her greatest extravagance , a simple couture gown of lilac organza . |
3 | okay , you also know about the editorial control of newspapers do you ? |
4 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
5 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
6 | We also know from the honest remarks of the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) that around two fifths of the Labour party opposed its Front Bench 's policy on Europe . |
7 | We also knew of the same facies in Egypt and Israel . |
8 | The " sett " referred to as being held by Wilson might have been what we now know as the Tilberthwaite Mine ; which had been an attractive prospect from the days of the Elizabethan miners and continued to be investigated on and off right up to the 1930's . |
9 | There were delays in correspondence owing to the war , and Wordsworth decided to finish , as a tribute to his friend , the ‘ poem to Coleridge ’ which we now know as the 1805 Prelude . |
10 | It was now possible to map what we now know as the motor cortex ( i.e. the part of the brain controlling muscle function ) in terms of the musculature each section controlled . |
11 | Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall . |
12 | The sententiae are still firmly attached to the view that trusts operate in personam , but they still know of the restricted real protection allowed by the missio . |
13 | But RJ Mitchell 's early death from cancer at the age of 42 in 1937 meant he never knew about the vital role the Spitfire played in his country 's defence . |