Example sentences of "i know [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |
| 3 | The genial mayor , Monsieur Gerard Thibaut , met our questions with blank bewilderment : ‘ I know nothing about a picture of the Fallen Madonna hidden in a Bratwurst sausage , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 5 | ‘ I know nothing about the tenants . |
| 6 | I know nothing about the Resistance , and have nothing against the forces of the occupation . |
| 7 | Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client . |
| 8 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 9 | In view of the circumstances of his team 's downfall , perhaps the most ironic touch about the final was that Chapman had said in the Sunday Express a week before the game : ‘ I know nothing of the art of clairvoyance , but I should feel happier if someone would foretell me the vital incident which is almost sure to decide the match . |
| 10 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 11 | I know nothing of the movement , I have no guilty secrets to reveal . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I know nothing of the Resistance , Obersturmfuhrer . ’ |
| 13 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 14 | Now if this is erm , a perhaps a non representative hundred in so far as if , if you can compare it with er the , the average in the West of Scotland , I know your speaking as , as an expert because you work , well , well tell me exactly what you do , I know your with the transport |
| 15 | And he says , ‘ Well actually I know someone down the road who 's happy to take 10 million on ’ , And then you 're in business . |
| 16 | I know someone in the Council who might perhaps-it is only a perhaps … |
| 17 | I know someone in the States has married an eighty year old and she was only eighteen ! |
| 18 | He felt her slim shoulder move under the thick fabric of the tartan shirt , " as much as I know anything at the moment , that 's what I think I 'll be doing . |
| 19 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
| 20 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 21 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 22 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I know it like the back of my hand . ’ |
| 24 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 25 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 26 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 27 | I knew something about the bird life of the islands , having read articles about the rare and endangered Seychelles kestrel and magpie robin , but it was a chance encounter in — of all places — the Falkland Islands , that inspired my partner in Island Holidays to seek out more information . |
| 28 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 29 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 30 | I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing . |