Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] know [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American kids do n't know that stuff now though , surely … |
| 2 | For some unaccountable reason she had bent down to inspect the floor , hoping , though Dr Neil did not know this , to escape the attentions of Havvie and his friends , all of whom had known her well in her old life . |
| 3 | Two girls are born , one in Poland , one in France : their parents do n't know each other , there is no connection whatsoever between the two families , but the girls grow up identical in appearance , nature and character . |
| 4 | Doone did n't know much about marble , it appeared . |
| 5 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 6 | But Berndt did n't know any of the layers of discomfort he was pressing on his new trainee . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course we would n't — but Mr. Olinton does n't know that . |
| 8 | If a child does not know any other black people , he or she does not value them ; all his or her values descend from the adoptive parents . |
| 9 | We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’ |
| 10 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 11 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
| 12 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 13 | Venables added he felt Sugar did n't know much about football . |
| 14 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 15 | Zacco does n't know this . |
| 16 | Obviously Frank Morris does n't know much about trade union history . |
| 17 | Philip did n't know much about driving but he thought that maybe she was in the wrong gear . |
| 18 | Lee did n't know much . |
| 19 | And now she knew that Uncle Knacker did n't know any more than she did , and she was on her own because her parents could n't afford expensive lessons or a top-class pony . |
| 20 | But Mr Craven did not know this . |
| 21 | Oh so I suppose Trudy does n't know either ? |
| 22 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 23 | I mean it was a very big operation , there could have been people alive in that plane , but er , as it happened , I , I think tragically they were both dead , but I mean , but people did n't know that . |
| 24 | Er we 'd like to introduce Neighbourhood Watch into inner city areas where people do n't know each other too well . |
| 25 | It 's like slang like , if two people do n't know each other they talk like formally but if two people know each uvver they use slang , you know to get across because they know each other personally . |
| 26 | The only chance I 'd got of staying on , er , a couple of people do n't know this , it 's quite vital sometimes to become what they call an alderman . |
| 27 | If there is a bob or two to be made , old rootstocks may be sold as ‘ hedging roses ’ with a bit of brash advertising — it does not matter if the illustration is nothing like the truth , the media do not know any better — and somebody will buy them , they always do . |
| 28 | Jack did n't know much about its history , just that it was a folly built by someone rich , but he had walked there many times with his camera , photographing the temple from all angles . |
| 29 | " I am sure Mrs Dallam does n't know all that . " |
| 30 | More generally , Arrow ( 1984 ) calls it hidden information or hidden knowledge — the principal does not know all that the agent knows . |