Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] know [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 2 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 3 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 4 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |
| 6 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 7 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 8 | I happen to know of a supply in Siena but I 'd rather you kept it dark . |
| 9 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
| 10 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 11 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 12 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 13 | That 's all , that 's only how I come to know about the treacle tins . ’ |
| 14 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 15 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 16 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 17 | This is the most useful facility I have known on the system . |
| 18 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 19 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 20 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |
| 21 | Crude murals on a hoarding illustrated the legend of the hero Cuchulain , who killed a fearsome hound and then himself became known as the Hound of Ulster . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the breaking of the German Enigma codes , which became known as the Ultra secret , played a vital role in winning the war and was the only good thing to come out of MI6 . |
| 23 | Stirling himself was driving a hybrid vehicle that he had obtained in Cairo which became known as the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 24 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 25 | However , the Front was increasingly built up and reinforced by the North via the route which became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail . |
| 26 | He continued in words which became known as the Kilmuir rules : |
| 27 | The eventual results were the creation of a new degree in natural science in 1850 , and the building of a new scientific teaching centre , which became known as the University Museum . |
| 28 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 29 | A great ramp of rock was built up to its mouth which became known as the Thriddle Incline — a conspicuous present day feature . |
| 30 | Other influential evidence was provided by Phillips ( 1958 ) who showed that for the UK for almost 100 years before the late 1950s there appeared to exist a stable relationship — which became known as the Phillips curve — between a real variable , unemployment , and the rate of change of a nominal variable , nominal wages . |