Example sentences of "know [pron] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 2 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 3 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 4 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 5 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 8 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 9 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 10 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 11 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | None of this implies of course that babies know anything about the external world at all . |
| 14 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 15 | ‘ I only meant that not many people know anything about the old gods these days . ’ |
| 16 | He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports . |
| 17 | Knowing nothing about the likely sums involved , or the intentions of Viola 's younger son , the discussion was inconclusive , but as he stopped his car outside its magnificent , unpaid-for garage , Desmond said : ‘ I think I 'd better keep an eye on young Hilary . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr H knew nothing about the new law when he arrived in the UK . |
| 20 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 21 | The landowner , who now lives in Wales , knew nothing about the planned event . |
| 22 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 23 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 24 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |