Example sentences of "[pers pn] know [indef pn] [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 | 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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 6 | I said well do you know anybody with a good ? |
| 7 | That as compared with the one you can put in that you know one at the top one at the side and . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 15 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 16 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 22 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |