Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He was damned if he was going to let any of them know of his present predicament .
2 They agreed to support policies most of them knew to be damaging , misguided and inhuman .
3 Most of them knew of no patient who had died of asthma during the past five or more years , but three possible cases were referred to , one of which was already accounted for .
4 None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert .
5 It was as well only the three of them knew about her disappointment .
6 Early reports suggested that few of them knew about the registration process because the government 's public information had been put out on a Friday , the first day of the Kuwaiti weekend .
7 Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual .
8 Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken .
9 There are a number of different kinds of bomb , some of them known by a variety of colourful synonyms , but in many cases , there is a good deal of argument about exactly how they acquire their shape .
10 ‘ One of them knows of you .
11 None of them knows for sure if the controlling shareholder , the French government , will keep him on or , in the Gallic equivalent of the kick upstairs , say thank-you and raise him a grade in the Legion d'Honneur .
12 Trouble is none of them knows about I up there .
13 Friends of his knew of Fleischmann as an eminent electrochemist .
14 This volume was thus very largely taken up with an exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity , not as a second-order theological construction , but as sketching the basis within God himself of the possibility and actuality of his making of himself known to us in jesus Christ .
15 Within that horizon , however , it can be seen that God 's making of himself known through Jesus has a threefold pattern : he makes himself known in Jesus Christ and to us , and this triadic structure is nothing other than that of the Trinity : that God is Father , Son and Holy Spirit ; that the Son is the Word and Image of the Father ; that the Holy Spirit is the power who discloses that Image and conveys that Word .
16 And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know .
17 Er the other rule with well method of procedure , most of you know about it , but if you want to attract my attention during the course of the discussion simply put your name board up on end and we can see who wants to speak .
18 But what I would like to know is , any of you know for certain that you want to come to either of the parts of those that day , in the evening or the afternoon ?
19 Do you , do either of you know of any really good , good car boot sales ?
20 And of course , on the shooting , they used to have a good feed of you know in the mansion in the cellar .
21 I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it .
22 Above all , in this drab war of amorphous anonymity where the public yearned for identifiable heroes , the air aces received an acclaim far in excess of anything known by ‘ The Few ’ of 1940 .
23 Amazingly , he seems to believe that none of us know about the Tesla factory in Czechoslovakia and the various tube factories in China . ’
24 Surprisingly , many of us know about the events of our lives without always seeing their significance , singly or cumulatively .
25 She had in fact made totally adequate arrangements for the children to be absorbed into a part of her extended family that none of us knew about .
26 Only a few of us knew about the cave .
27 None of us knew for certain who the informer was .
28 Every one of us knows from personal experience , for example on dark nights , that there is an insensibly graded continuous series running all the way from total blindness up to perfect vision , and that every step along this series confers significant benefits .
29 And in the morning there was nothing to see they were floating about you know with the floods .
30 and the water music which she had about you know for months and months she would have the water music on and you used to hear it in the .
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