Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] know [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may tell lies all my life if it 's expedient but I must know them for what they are and I must never tell them to myself . |
| 2 | ‘ Why , I wonder , do you suppose that I should know anything of your sister 's abductor ? ’ |
| 3 | No , I might know him by sight , but er I ca n't think of him |
| 4 | I 'm sure I 'll know her by sight . |
| 5 | Which I 'd know nothing about , er but just highly specialized in itself . |
| 6 | ‘ Otherwise you too will have to forgo the festivities — and I shall know naught of what goes on ! ’ |
| 7 | You ca n't possibly be ill in digs , you might die and nobody 'd know anything about it " |
| 8 | At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language . |
| 9 | And not a murderer , whatever else you may know him to be . |
| 10 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 11 | You must know everything by now . |
| 12 | The dealing manager was still laughing : " Before you get on the market , you should know something about it yourself . |
| 13 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 14 | I said that I would come in for every match and sit in the library and deal with questions and enquiries — there was no point in simply having it supervised by a steward who might know nothing about books or history . ’ |
| 15 | You 'll know him as Adrian from BBC1 's Bread . |
| 16 | Even within living memory the following saying was often quoted : ‘ If you find an honest miller you 'll know him by the tuft of hair growing in the palm of his hand . ’ |
| 17 | You 'll know it from lyrics that dwell on ‘ the final kill , the final thrill ’ , titles like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ ( a real place , in Kilburn , irony fans ) and a cute little skull-and-crossbones on the packaging of ‘ Valid ’ . |
| 18 | The little ones would giggle at that if they noticed , and if they giggled she 'd know what about , he was sure . |
| 19 | If you 've been to any of the major house parties , you 'd know them by sight , if not by name . |
| 20 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 21 | Might not some echo of it reach her mind , so that she would know someone of hers had been near ; that she had not been deserted ? |
| 22 | Twenty-four hours ago her life had seemed straightforward and uncomplicated , and now she was staying with a family she did n't know , invited to a wedding where she would know none of the guests — and extraordinarily attracted to a man with blue eyes . |
| 23 | The end result is an extremely well-written , amusing narrative which I commend to everyone fortunate enough to have known the Club and particularly to those who will know it in the future . |
| 24 | In fifty minutes or so , you will have an extraordinary experience : you will know nothing of the baglady to begin with , but you will know everything you need to know by the end . |
| 25 | From experience you will know which of the icons you rarely use and which tools you frequently access via the menu . |
| 26 | Colin Webley ( 36 ) is another newcomer as far as playing is concerned , although many of you will know him as the chap who did sterling work in the tea hut last season . |
| 27 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 28 | You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them . |
| 29 | 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 ; |
| 30 | 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 . |