Example sentences of "[vb base] know [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 IF YOU want to know what the future holds for Europe 's financial markets , the best guess is usually to look at America 's present .
2 I want to know what the first three digits are . ’
3 ‘ I expect you want to know what the future has in store , do n't you ? ’
4 ‘ I do n't think I 'm being treated fairly and I want to know what the hell is going on . ’
5 I want to know what the difference is , and I want to know whether we need to take action or what ?
6 If you want to know what the messages are , you have to listen on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday next week by the way .
7 So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that .
8 I want to know what the microphone is ?
9 We want to know who the boss is . ’
10 I want to know you the way no man has ever known a woman before . ’
11 But the theory is that if we , if we get to know what the , the purpose er o o of the job or , or the assignment is , er then we , we stand a slightly better chance of er getting a satisfied client at the end of the day .
12 Or if I am called to a meeting that does not have a purpose written on the agenda , I demand to know what the purpose of the meeting is , before we start .
13 You do know what the Stop List is , Breakspear ? ’
14 I do know who the man is . ’
15 We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years .
16 They also need to know what the local currency is , the exchange rate and the rate of inflation .
17 ‘ They need to know what the standards are in professional tennis these days .
18 You need to know what the client 's own role is in his company .
19 Now gets interesting , and you need to know what the notation is , when you 've got more than one function .
20 But if we wish to do something about these close and secretive ties between the executive , the military and industry , we need to know what the driving force of this development is .
21 To start with you need to know what the phonemes of the new language and their variants are .
22 Look , I need to know what the words ‘ communications satellite ’ mean .
23 Well , we need to know what the alternative point of view to our own is .
24 Erm , we need to know what the position is now , and where we want to be , so , a lot of the influence is going , what change the influence is going to bring about .
25 All I wanted you to do is put the highlights down it 's all we need we need to know what the important things are , okay , just a quick breakdown of things we talked about .
26 As a retired person living alone and needing to plan ahead , I need to know what the parties ' plans are on local taxation .
27 oh yes , yes , yes all you really need to know what the question is in inflation is how the why it 's regarded as the biggest economic problem and secondly
28 We need to know who the members of assemblies actually represent and to what extent they are able to investigate and influence executive actions .
29 In order to define this further , we need to know who the users are and what are their needs .
30 In reply , we would point out that , before we can even raise the question of correlation between linguistic expressions and extra-linguistic phenomena , we have to know what the linguistic expressions are , and for speakers and hearers ( even if not for strict behaviourists ) this means understanding them .
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