Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] know [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 2 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 3 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 4 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 5 | ‘ Just as long as she knows about the increased risk of her baby getting gastroenteritis with bottle-feeding … ’ |
| 6 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 7 | The aspiration after this effect is very ancient , as we know from the Greek derivation common to both ‘ epigram ’ and ‘ epitaph ’ . |
| 8 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 9 | They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin . |
| 10 | Gabriel looked for his parents — even though he knew by the local accents that he was far , far away from his own countryside . |
| 11 | It was a shock to one taxi driver , even though he knows about the new law . |