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Example sentences of "[adv] know the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Very , very soon the secret of life would be revealed , and Ruth would rather know the secret of death .
2	The client who claimed he would rather know the truth was usually the type who would not .
3	I 'd rather know the truth .
4	Her letter asked : ‘ Do you personally know the origin of your surname and what is it like being called ‘ Dudley Fishburn ’ ? ’ .
5	We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time .
6	We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source .
7	Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him .
8	‘ Since I am like to be murdered for it , I had better know the tune ! ’
9	You 'd better know the theory and the practice of the venue 's fire regulations .
10	The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned .
11	Everyone will soon know the truth if they start asking me questions . ’
12	An intensive course in Russian is provided for those who do not already know the language .
13	This should lead us to harbour severe doubts about the ‘ scientific ’ nature of such research , since it seems to already know the answer before it goes out to investigate .
14	If we could say with certainty that they are , then , it seems , we would already know the answer to the problem as to the possibility of a numerical diversity of ontological existents .
15	It was a straight question , and he genuinely did n't already know the answer .
16	At least she would finally know the truth .
17	No one can ever know the fatality rate , the numbers of young inexperienced birds who are tempted to take on the flight across the North Sea , but who never make it .
18	I do n't suppose I 'll ever know the answer . ’
19	Perhaps no one would ever know the reason , for Jerome Fanshawe 's Jaguar had skidded , crashed and caught fire five miles from the hospital where the sole survivor now lay .
20	You can take the dead boy 's place and no one will ever know the difference .
21	Obviously you get to know that a Gibson has a different tone from a Strat , and you 'd also know the kind of sound you wanted .
22	The seal of the Spirit is meant to assure us that we belong to Christ , and to let others also know the fact .
23	My hon. Friend will also know the value of the more competitive and effective approach of the yard .
24	I do n't honestly know the answer to that .
25	We may not really know the frequency with which Rousseau heard it , but well before the Revolution it was heard only in extremis .
26	When the tumult died down and Seb was able to hear himself speak , he asked Noah , ‘ Do you really know the Duke of Marlborough ? ’
27	Still , if Hawking is right and we do find a complete unified theory , we shall really know the mind of God .
28	At Blackwells , Karen George suggested that art books at bargain prices had posed a particular challenge , especially as bargains attracted ‘ the uninitiated , who do n't really know the difference ’ .
29	‘ But if we are in a deep , narrow valley , say with width less than four depth , we do n't really know the period , due to reflections . ’
30	Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on .