Example sentences of "know [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 2 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 3 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 4 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 5 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
| 6 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 7 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 8 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 9 | On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ . |
| 10 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
| 11 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 12 | The Rifle Corps ( est. 1802 ) became in 1816 the Rifle Brigade , now known as the 3rd Green Jackets . |
| 13 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 14 | So into the garage the car went to have the seats changed — under warranty , of course — and the ‘ bad ’ pair couriered to Courtaulds for full forensic examination , results of which will be known by the next Running Report . |
| 15 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |