Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] know " in BNC.
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1 | ODDEST sight of the week : top Tory ‘ mandarin ’ Allan Clarke giggling at the readers ' tips in Viz : ‘ Taxi drivers , why not pop into your local garage and have your indicators fixed then the rest of us would know where you 're going … |
2 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
3 | Old-fashioned or external sanitary towels , as anyone who has had the misfortune to make use of them will know , are dreadfully uncomfortable : they will not stay in place , they leak , and they chafe . |
4 | But I would have imagined that an intelligent woman like you would know how to get herself out of it again . ’ |
5 | Well if you see an old man sitting there with a a shining fronted cap on you 'll know that 's me Granddad , in a white beard . |