Example sentences of "[adv] know [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you do this , silently count three cards from the top of the pack , place them together and slightly indent them so you can see the comer of the third card just enough to know its value . |
| 2 | I have been back in London long enough to know my place . |
| 3 | You do ri well we know you well enough to know your voice though . |
| 4 | Yes , you will all know my interest in mental health erm personally because of my son and I am very pleased that under four point five two erm that the extra workers are going in t for support . |
| 5 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 6 | They could do this by ‘ numbering ’ from the two ends and so know their position in the line . |
| 7 | But this morning the child , with curly-blonde hair and sad brown eyes , who only knew her name was Debbie , is expected to be reunited with her mother . |
| 8 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 9 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |
| 10 | Example four , you notice it says how much cover would you , and that 's you as an individual , knowing whether you smoke or not , obviously knowing your age , get if you spend thirty pounds a month with an escalating premium , and waiver of premium ? |
| 11 | Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water . |
| 12 | Although he spends most of his waking hours exchanging information with fellow otaku , Zero only knows his tribe through the computer bulletin board . |
| 13 | ‘ You can not pretend not to know our purpose , ’ he began , so loudly that the laird 's head went back . |
| 14 | I would soon know his secret . |
| 15 | The method of attribution by provenance can also be used in reverse , in cases where we know the name of a mint from the coins but do not know its location . |
| 16 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 17 | Army personnel did not know their way around London and would need police escorts . |
| 18 | The dominant male of the period , like Kenneth More or Michael Dennison , was sexless , full of ‘ common sense ’ , above all , decent : the exaggerated nature of the Edwardians ' dress , its appropriation from middle-class roots , and the obsessional nature with which they pursued it , all spoke of people who did not know their place . |
| 19 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 20 | The farrier 's son would recognise spavin , splint and stringhalt in the living horse although he did not know their nature . |
| 21 | Emmie looked at the small , waxy face and felt that she did not know her grandmother any more . |
| 22 | Debbie did not know her surname nor her address and when police were called to the hospital the little girl was too distressed and confused to help them with their inquiries . |
| 23 | She told nurses her name was Debbie but did not know her surname , address or any other details to identify her . |
| 24 | This man was a stranger and could not know her story , but the words accused her . |
| 25 | We do not know her name , though it is unlikely that the sculptor did not have a model . |
| 26 | He does not know her name , and he is too shy to ask . |
| 27 | However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died . |
| 28 | But she claimed she did not know her cargo was heroin . |
| 29 | If the world did not know her history , which was by no means certain , they at least knew of her liaison with Benedict . |
| 30 | For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal . |