Example sentences of "what he know [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 2 | Kirov mulled over what he knew of the man thus far . |
| 3 | Erlich told Rutherford what he knew of the assassin who spoke with an English accent , and to whom the word ‘ Colt ’ had been shouted . |
| 4 | Freddie the Nark was a shrewd character , he thought , and from what he knew of the man Billy realised that he must tread very carefully . |
| 5 | In an attempt partly to offer a tribute and perhaps in some way to attempt a readjustment of the balance against him , he recited what he knew of the church 's founding saint . |
| 6 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |
| 7 | The ambassador tried to explain what he knew of the sources of unrest and said he thought the mullahs were getting their money from the merchants in the bazaars , not from the CIA . |
| 8 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 9 | During the interminable journey Edward turned what he knew of the affair over and over in his mind , and wondered if it could possibly , really , happen . |
| 10 | He thought about what he knew of the victims . |
| 11 | Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley . |
| 12 | Later , sitting in the Lagonda with one hand on the steering wheel , Mungo tried to recall what he knew about the dead girl , apart from her name . |
| 13 | While sailing back from Cancun to San Paul Key he had put down on paper what he knew in the hope that a pattern would appear . |
| 14 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |