Example sentences of "know very " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Diana became patron of the Welsh National Opera , one of the original five patronages she took on when she became Princess of Wales , she confessed that she did not know very much about opera — and that her principal love was ballet . |
| 2 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 3 | A female employee of one of the companies included in the report said , ‘ I do n't know very many women who 've got high up … |
| 4 | Alan , whom I did n't know very well , had invited Ann and me over for the day , and had also offered to act as our gillie . |
| 5 | This shows , does n't it , that Aunt Nellie did n't know very much about ‘ t' Brownie gals , ’ because doing good turns in the home is just what they are specially clever at ! |
| 6 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble is , ye do n't know very much , ’ Parker said . |
| 8 | But we 'll let you know very soon . ’ |
| 9 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 10 | I did n't know very much about barn owls at the time , so I busied myself reading everything I could find on them , in the library and magazines . |
| 11 | I gather she either does n't know very much about Uncle Adam or does n't care very much about what she does know . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ THE American people do n't know very much about the Balkans . |
| 13 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 14 | People are quite good at covering things up ; they say , I do n't know very much about literary theory , you talk to so and so down the corridor ; or Well , I do n't know African writing , but So-and-So does , and then people offer options on them , that to some extent is what we do here , within a framework of a fairly traditional English structure … people manage by excluding what they do n't want to deal with , really . |
| 15 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 16 | Rather , people fear and stigmatise fairly specific things , people and conditions , even though they may admittedly know very little about them . |
| 17 | Q : I bought my PC a month ago , so I do n't know very much about it yet . |
| 18 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 19 | And tell me about the lady who did abortions , erm , did you know very much about what sort of people they were ? |
| 20 | She did not know very much about the Dark Ireland ; she thought no one knew very much . |
| 21 | ‘ She was very , very shy , ’ says Freda Berkeley , ‘ and when she had people she did n't know very well , she 'd ask me round to help . ’ |
| 22 | If any of your children are at playgroup , it 's a song you 'll know very well . |
| 23 | You feel perhaps you do n't know very much more about the Bible than you did , say , ten years ago . |
| 24 | ‘ But we do n't know very much about him . |
| 25 | Disadvantages : Difficult to get character references , so you 'll have to rely on your own judgement ; you 'll be leaving the children with people you do n't know very well , although if you get a regular commitment you should soon get to know and trust your sitters . |
| 26 | The difficulty here is that central planning may know very little about the actual way of working of the different departments , so a theoretically superior plan may be impracticable . |
| 27 | Such things were often done , as a woman of Mrs Moon 's experience would know very well , being altogether au fait with the social niceties . |
| 28 | Do n't know very much now but er it er became most monotonous and I used to and I used to like |
| 29 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 30 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |