Example sentences of "[verb] know a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have inherited a pub full of history and want to know a little bit more about it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Accordingly , the researcher needs to know a great deal about likely extraneous factors so that they can be controlled . |
| 3 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 4 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 5 | She also reflected that Laura seemed to know a fair amount about Gilbert . |
| 6 | She seemed to know an awful lot about you . |
| 7 | In pursuing his dream of nuclear powered aircraft Tank came to know an Austrian refugee named Richter who had been a nuclear physicist in Hitler 's Germany and was another of the new generation of South Americans . |
| 8 | ‘ I would have kissed you long ago if I 'd known a simple kiss could have so miraculous an effect . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As a consultant , I get to know a wide variety of businesses and people who are in interesting commercial positions . ’ |
| 10 | you get to know a regular figure . |
| 11 | It is certainly less strain to be in a job where you relate to and get to know a limited number of people . |
| 12 | Inevitably as a journalist you get to know a large number of people , and it 's people who make appointments . |
| 13 | Becher et al cite the following methodological criticisms of inspections : lack of empirical evidence on which they are based : impossibility of getting to know a complex situation quickly ; failure to separate value judgements from evidence . |
| 14 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 15 | I should have to know a great deal more about you . |
| 16 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |
| 17 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 18 | But they do know a good ad when they see one . |
| 19 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 20 | So I have that advantage , that er , I do know a little bit about you . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’ |
| 22 | They know about it , not just in rhetoric but in reality , and they have the opportunity to get to know a wider range of young people than parents or any other professional group . |
| 23 | He did n't have to get to know a new city like the boys from the country did . |
| 24 | Unless a dancer was resident for many weeks at a theatre , it was difficult to get to know a prospective husband . |
| 25 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 26 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 27 | The sites may not be so dramatic , but you will be surprised at what you discover if you aim really to get to know a particular area . |
| 28 | It takes years , it is thought , to get to know an urban area well . |
| 29 | Gregory of Tours seems not to have known about the Trojan origin of the Franks , but he did know an undeveloped version of their migration legend . |
| 30 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |