Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] know [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better know the theory and the practice of the venue 's fire regulations . |
| 2 | I also found ‘ lanisticola ’ more aggressive — that being relative , as my real ‘ livingstonii ’ seemed not to know the meaning of the word . |
| 3 | In other words , I 'd always known the ingredients but had n't been able to put them together . |
| 4 | Clare wondered why she felt so hurt , when she 'd always known the truth . |
| 5 | Azhag and his tribe fought its way out of Todtheim easily , indeed , Azhag seemed almost to know the way out . |
| 6 | She 'd never known a man speak so softly — or to greater effect . |
| 7 | She 'd always known what he was , and she — she was no silly eighteen-year-old who 'd never known a man 's touch . |
| 8 | He 'd never known a boy to fail seven interviews . |
| 9 | She 'd never known a woman , she thought to herself , who dressed so conventionally , whose face was more boringly nondescript , whose hairdresser performed such miracles of dreariness . |
| 10 | My father said he 'd never known a season before when chairs and commodes were the best crops . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd never known a time when Klein did n't need money for some gambit or other , and that meant he needed painters . |
| 12 | She 'd never known the Lobster Pot to have so much atmosphere . |
| 13 | In all his years he 'd never known an August day quite like it . |
| 14 | At first his challenges were met by rival warbosses , and there were several bloody battles , but after rumours of Azhag 's victories became well known the tribes gave up any ideas of fighting and flocked to join the growing Waaagh . |
| 15 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 16 | Peter grew up to know the value of money , and was taught by his caring , careful parents to save and be prudent in financial matters , and cautious of whom to trust in business . |
| 17 | The father of a friend of mine who went to visit relatives in Paris told us that he did not know a word of French but spoke the Parmigiano dialect all the time and got on very well . |
| 18 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 19 | She did not know the Rifleman well , yet she thought he was by far the best-looking man on the Prince 's staff . |
| 20 | Chief Insp John McLean , deputy sub division officer at Saracen police office , said : ‘ Nobody will have the excuse after 1 March that they did not know the campaign was under way . ’ |
| 21 | At just the same time George Stephenson also invented a safety-lamp very like Davy 's ; but he did not know the principle on which Davy had designed his , and his lamp was the fruit of practice , of trial and error , guided by the general idea of restricting the supply of gas-laden air . |
| 22 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 23 | Here they were hammering with a monotonous beat , the voices high but soft , small boys staring at her as she looked at them in panic , realising she did not know the way out of the maze of streets and could not ask . |
| 24 | Yeo Davis 's business was concerned with representing people who did not know the ropes , or even that there were any ropes ; Hutton 's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through . |
| 25 | This leaves us to assume that the beneficiary ought to pay in the event that ( iii ) it could not be shown that the testator , had he known the land was pledged , would have left something else or ( iv ) the testator did not know the land was pledged . |
| 26 | Lexander did not know the word Junker . |
| 27 | If they did not know the word less , their responses followed a pattern of chance responding ; if they did know it , they got it right nearly all the time . |
| 28 | How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ? |
| 29 | But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages . |
| 30 | The actor just did not know the lines , and , though he could manage the exchanges of dialogue quite well , every time he came to a big speech , he would dry . |