Example sentences of "[pers pn] know [prep] 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 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 4 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 5 | Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed . |
| 6 | I know of the hon. Gentleman 's interest in and concern about this ; they are shared by many others . |
| 7 | I know of the hon. Gentleman 's interest in the subject . |
| 8 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 9 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
| 10 | Now I know in the original draft nature conservation interest was mentioned and er I 'd like to hear from North Yorkshire why that factor is taken out of the policy . |
| 11 | I know in the free market , resources will be allocated , erm , in an optimal way , in that those , er , those sectors that , that are the most productive , in economic terms , you know , they can produce more output per unit input , alright , those sectors that can do that will get the resources . |
| 12 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 14 | I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The first I knew of the positive test came in a letter from the Jockey Club . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 18 | I knew from the thick fragrance that filled the air that it was Mrs. Constantine . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you know about the spare jacket ? ’ |
| 20 | What do you know about the working class ? |
| 21 | What do you know about the strange stories ? ’ |
| 22 | Do you know about the different types of radiation ? |
| 23 | Did you know about the local CMS Vicar ( featured in ‘ The Door ’ ) who visits the caravans of motorway workers ? |
| 24 | Liv in the Do you know in the actual flats where you 're living here ? |
| 25 | ‘ But … how did she know about the poor old Colonel 's hip ? ’ |
| 26 | Said what 's wrong , he says Raymond I 'm taking him down the Grosvenor Road and there 's fucking old Paddy , we used to work with him , standing outside the f you know opposite The Royal ? |
| 27 | Ha , yet the Southwold Parish Council , I 've seen it in there , er there 's been a some vandalism on the golf course , you know on the common and er |
| 28 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 29 | you know at the left hand side of her house they 've planted some trees . |
| 30 | See at I can just let her go and play out on the park , or at anything , you know with the other kids , but round here you ca n't . |