Example sentences of "to know by [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart .
2 Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’
3 Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government .
4 First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) .
5 I do understand the expression , to know by sight .
6 She did n't dare go in : he was such a light sleeper , and he seemed to know by instinct when his mother was in the same room .
7 " And I want to know by morning . "
8 Yeah , that 's why they 're here and really I would like to know by Friday m tennish .
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