Example sentences of "knew [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the trends of mail order sales , the percentage and identity of the returns , the sources of manufacture , market research results , plans for mail order catalogues in the future and that Harris knew intimately the chairman of the manufacturers . |
| 2 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 3 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |
| 4 | For a good while , most of these senators , and others , knew only the voice of Ali on the phone . |
| 5 | She knew only the cream would have been able to get to Teacher Training College in the first place , and so many shared her desire and enthusiasm for education . |
| 6 | At Montmartre , I was disappointed by the Sacré Cœur , and I dared , privately , to categorise it as vulgar ; but , of course , I was quite unused to Second Empire Romanesque , and knew only the filigree stonework of English Gothic , and now the glorious tracery and the flying buttresses of Nôtre Dame . |
| 7 | Those sausages were a credit to Mother because she knew just the seasoning they required , and we would hang them up in the kitchen for people to eat as they pleased . |
| 8 | I knew exactly the accessories she 'd want . |
| 9 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 10 | She knew exactly the kind of frustration he was referring to … and exactly the closet it had come from ! |
| 11 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 12 | One company commander who survived the attack recalled that ‘ nobody knew exactly the location of the mixed-up regiments … it was impossible to move . |
| 13 | This made things much simpler for his advisers because they knew exactly the sort of information Reagan wanted to hear . |
| 14 | In her heart , Alida Thorne knew both the future and the truth , and she was both oppressed and afraid . |
| 15 | He knew instantly the driver was intent on killing them . |
| 16 | And she knew now the reason she had n't wanted the doctor , knew it was because she was afraid they 'd take Jenny away from her because she was n't fit to look after her . |
| 17 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 18 | He knew well the anxiety this would create as I wondered whether one day he would turn me away . |
| 19 | The devil had the audacity to grin at her , as if he knew precisely the fires he had lit inside the centre of the earth . |
| 20 | She knew then the clerk had called him . |
| 21 | Yet , while she was finding him most difficult to forget , the realisation only then struck her that she knew neither the name of the garage that housed her car , nor the place where it was situated ! |