Example sentences of "[verb] know [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna found that she did n't want to know , in fact she did n't want to know to an almost frantic extent . |
| 2 | They will want to know about a childminder who fails to provide a safe environment or where children appear to be neglected or ill cared for . |
| 3 | ‘ Because there 's nothing else anyone could possibly want to know about a man three days dead . |
| 4 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 5 | But there are basic things that the journalist will want to know about a story that you can work out in advance . |
| 6 | Would she want to know about the flowering of the pink camellia and its glossy leaves , about the goat running away , about the double-yolked egg ? |
| 7 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 8 | You do what you have to do : you take your shirt off and get prodded and tapped , but you keep your head down ; you do n't want to know about the stuff they do in there . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you want to know about the children 's clothes ? ’ she asked , adding that they had looked rather sweet . |
| 10 | It would be very naive to suppose that one report taken on its own could tell you as much as you might want to know about the organization . |
| 11 | They did want to know about the recession . |
| 12 | What d' ya want to know about the on the phone stranger . |
| 13 | As Caroline told me : ‘ Once you have indicated that you like to buy from the comfort of your armchair , other companies assume you will want to know about the products they have to sell in the same way ’ . |
| 14 | Does anybody want to know about the cost of telephone calls ? |
| 15 | For a start , they own that flexible ‘ I ’ ( when I say ‘ I ’ you will want to know within a paragraph or two whether I mean Julian Barnes or someone invented ; a poet can shimmy between the two , getting credit for both deep feeling and objectivity ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , clauses 9.1 and 9.2 are dangerous as a tenant will prefer to know at the outset whether any defects affect the premises and the tenant 's solicitor should amend them as follows : |
| 17 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 18 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 19 | 20 THINGS YOU NEED TO PRETEND TO KNOW ABOUT THE '70s |
| 20 | I 'll tell you everything you want to know on the telephone now . |
| 21 | In the form of a very brief list of what we want to know about A Level , could you do it ? |
| 22 | If you want to know about the main issues of economic reform in Russia , this is the book to read . |
| 23 | But as you may discover at the end of your course you 'll have a questionnaire to say how found it , how it 's gone on and of course in the past people have filled in questionnaires saying what they want to know about the legal aspect is all about wills . |
| 24 | If you really want to know about The Charlatans , go back to the Tim Burgess ' roots with The Electric Crayons . |
| 25 | They want to know about the latest inventions . |
| 26 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 27 | If you really want to know about The Charlatans , go back to the Tim Burgess ' roots with The Electric Crayons . |
| 28 | There are also more specialised information sources you might need to use : if you want to know about the readership of a particular contemporary magazine or newspaper , for example ( perhaps as part of a study of the relation between ideology and audience ) you could use BRAD ( " British Rate and Data " ) , which lists advertising rates and audited newspaper and magazine circulations . |
| 29 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |