Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] know something " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought I might know something and he wanted to do me a good turn . ’ |
| 2 | A woman in France whose surname begins with V. They think she may know something . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She may know something , a piece of tittle-tattle , which may help us . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She may know something , Sir Edmund , ’ Benjamin tactfully intervened . |
| 5 | The dealing manager was still laughing : " Before you get on the market , you should know something about it yourself . |
| 6 | ‘ She must know something . |
| 7 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm hoping that by tomorrow we 'll know something definite . |
| 10 | If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal . |
| 11 | ‘ We will know something in less than two hours . |
| 12 | They may know something about Laura Channing and on the other hand they may not . |
| 13 | If he 's been in the area , they may know something . ’ |
| 14 | There are , basically , two philosophies about competitors ' media selection : to compete in the same media , because ‘ we must be seen to compete ’ or because it is the only really possible medium or ( even ) because ‘ they must know something ’ ; or to try to avoid the competition and to ‘ dominate ’ a reasonable alternative medium . |
| 15 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 16 | The strength of this method is that managers give their views on their peers — in other words , on firms they should know something about . |
| 17 | Even if he 's not there now , I suppose it 's possible they might know something . ’ |
| 18 | Solicitors well they will know something about your affairs possibly , because of hav to dealing with houses , other difficulties you may have come across form time to time . |
| 19 | It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated . |
| 20 | We suspect that he may know something about the downing of this plane that we do n't know he knows , if you follow me . |
| 21 | He is shaking his head and pleading not guilty , but he may know something about its origins . |
| 22 | In Munich , as one observer reported , each apprentice was made ‘ industrially efficient ’ ; and ‘ with this end in view ’ it was ‘ not sufficient ’ to receive instructions merely in the technical side of the trade , for the young worker to become ‘ a worthy citizen ’ , he should know something ‘ of his duties and responsibilities to the State ’ . |
| 23 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 24 | He should know something by close of play today . |
| 25 | Jackie said , well ring them , sh he should know something about it ! |
| 26 | He must know something . |
| 27 | " Old Man River , " they sang , " he must know something … " they processed , always singing , not knowing that they sang a dirge . |
| 28 | He might know something . |
| 29 | Although she had never allowed herself to consider it a possibility , the thought had crossed her mind that he might know something about that letter . |
| 30 | It 's possible he might know something . ’ |