Example sentences of "i know [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know nothing about the tenants . |
| 2 | I know nothing about the Resistance , and have nothing against the forces of the occupation . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 4 | Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client . |
| 5 | In view of the circumstances of his team 's downfall , perhaps the most ironic touch about the final was that Chapman had said in the Sunday Express a week before the game : ‘ I know nothing of the art of clairvoyance , but I should feel happier if someone would foretell me the vital incident which is almost sure to decide the match . |
| 6 | ‘ I know nothing of the Resistance , Obersturmfuhrer . ’ |
| 7 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 8 | I know nothing of the movement , I have no guilty secrets to reveal . ’ |
| 9 | Now if this is erm , a perhaps a non representative hundred in so far as if , if you can compare it with er the , the average in the West of Scotland , I know your speaking as , as an expert because you work , well , well tell me exactly what you do , I know your with the transport |
| 10 | And he says , ‘ Well actually I know someone down the road who 's happy to take 10 million on ’ , And then you 're in business . |
| 11 | I know someone in the Council who might perhaps-it is only a perhaps … |
| 12 | I know someone in the States has married an eighty year old and she was only eighteen ! |
| 13 | He felt her slim shoulder move under the thick fabric of the tartan shirt , " as much as I know anything at the moment , that 's what I think I 'll be doing . |
| 14 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
| 15 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I know it like the back of my hand . ’ |
| 17 | I knew something about the bird life of the islands , having read articles about the rare and endangered Seychelles kestrel and magpie robin , but it was a chance encounter in — of all places — the Falkland Islands , that inspired my partner in Island Holidays to seek out more information . |
| 18 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 19 | I knew nothing about the event . |
| 20 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 21 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 22 | I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’ |
| 23 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 24 | I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing . |
| 25 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew him in the army , ’ he said simply . |
| 27 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 29 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's a trouble-maker ; I knew it from the beginning , ’ she muttered . |