Example sentences of "[pron] know about the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I know about the strange stains she found
2 Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world .
3 ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant .
4 I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes .
5 I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission .
6 ‘ Did you know about the spare jacket ? ’
7 What do you know about the working class ?
8 What do you know about the strange stories ? ’
9 Do you know about the different types of radiation ?
10 Did you know about the local CMS Vicar ( featured in ‘ The Door ’ ) who visits the caravans of motorway workers ?
11 ‘ But … how did she know about the poor old Colonel 's hip ? ’
12 The people who know about the potential effect of a blanket ban are the tobacco manufacturers and they are not so sanguine about the prospect , threatening to pull their plants out of Britain if the ban comes into force .
13 Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next .
14 So one of the things about qualifying er the surgery when you walk into them and say well look you know about the hundred pound per full page
15 Tell me what you know about the Medieval Circle . ’
16 You have forgotten everything you know about the Inspiral Carpets .
17 I would have done it differently — OK , you know about the blind garden .
18 ‘ I suppose you know about the little hut ? ’
19 Luce thought over what she knew about the other woman .
20 Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol .
21 Previously , however , the worst effects were largely avoided by a combination of the expertise of the cartographer , who knew about the inherent generalization implicit in analogue maps , while the difficulty of manipulating maps by manual means precluded most forms of analysis likely to be sensitive to the effects of error .
22 Basing the structure of authority upon a governor , a council for day-to-day affairs , and an assembly to pass legislation , vote taxes , and express the trend of public feeling was an arrangement that would seem natural to anyone who knew about the English system of King , Privy Council , and parliament .
23 ‘ Just as long as she knows about the increased risk of her baby getting gastroenteritis with bottle-feeding … ’
24 Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago .
25 A person who knows about the different audio-visual and programmed formats , how they work , how they can be repaired , or what in general they are capable of .
26 What could we know about the greater universe ?
27 What do we know about the relative effectiveness of different treatment strategies to improve the functioning of individuals and families once abuse has been perpetrated ?
28 Let us look at what we know about the two halves of the human brain :
29 ‘ You 'd be amazed how little we know about the polar regions , ’ says Dr Preben Goodmandsen of the Technical University of Denmark .
30 The basic claim of the Principle is plausible enough : in constructing a fictional universe we rely on what we know about the actual world unless instructed otherwise .
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