Example sentences of "[pron] know [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 2 | ‘ I know nothing about the tenants . |
| 3 | I know nothing about the Resistance , and have nothing against the forces of the occupation . |
| 4 | Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client . |
| 5 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 6 | In view of the circumstances of his team 's downfall , perhaps the most ironic touch about the final was that Chapman had said in the Sunday Express a week before the game : ‘ I know nothing of the art of clairvoyance , but I should feel happier if someone would foretell me the vital incident which is almost sure to decide the match . |
| 7 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 8 | I know nothing of the movement , I have no guilty secrets to reveal . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know nothing of the Resistance , Obersturmfuhrer . ’ |
| 10 | And he says , ‘ Well actually I know someone down the road who 's happy to take 10 million on ’ , And then you 're in business . |
| 11 | I know someone in the Council who might perhaps-it is only a perhaps … |
| 12 | I know someone in the States has married an eighty year old and she was only eighteen ! |
| 13 | He felt her slim shoulder move under the thick fabric of the tartan shirt , " as much as I know anything at the moment , that 's what I think I 'll be doing . |
| 14 | I knew something about the bird life of the islands , having read articles about the rare and endangered Seychelles kestrel and magpie robin , but it was a chance encounter in — of all places — the Falkland Islands , that inspired my partner in Island Holidays to seek out more information . |
| 15 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 16 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 17 | I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing . |
| 18 | I knew nothing about the event . |
| 19 | I knew nothing about the Ober Gabelhornr 's history or the difficulty of the route , or even what it looked like . |
| 20 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 21 | I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’ |
| 22 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 23 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 24 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 25 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 26 | When I started the book in the summer of 1980 , I knew none of the East End skins . |
| 27 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 29 | but , she did say she did this that and the other thing as well you see , but there 's nobody knows anything about the hall in its new state as you do |
| 30 | ‘ They 'll let you know everything on the ward , ’ she replied with a smile . |