Example sentences of "knew [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 I went everywhere and no-one knew me at all .
2 You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’
3 They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all .
4 But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai .
5 I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them .
6 I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G .
7 On the face of it , it seemed that she was gaining Ana 's confidence , but then Felipe already had her confidence and he knew nothing at all about her blindness .
8 Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI .
9 I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 .
10 He knew everything about all his men .
11 But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing .
12 ‘ I hardly knew her at all , ’ said Guy , unconcernedly , ‘ only she happened to mention it once . ’
13 He scarcely knew her after all .
14 She knew it in all its moods , the formless expanse of a dark winter morning , the bright sparkle of summer , when the water , however dirty it might be really , seemed to have the freshness of faraway springs .
15 No one , it seemed , knew anything at all about the children they were uprooting so mercilessly .
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