Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] know the [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 the Lobster Pot to have so much atmosphere .
7 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 .
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 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 .
10 She did not know the Rifleman well , yet she thought he was by far the best-looking man on the Prince 's staff .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Lexander did not know the word Junker .
18 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 .
19 How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ?
20 But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages .
21 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 .
22 ‘ I did not know the circumstances . ’
23 When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police .
24 I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation .
25 Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU .
26 I did not know the uncle well , but he knew my husband .
27 We did not know the answers . ’
28 Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect .
29 The driver did not know the colour of the man 's eyes .
30 But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer .
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