Example sentences of "know [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space .
2 Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us .
3 So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library .
4 ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’
5 If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately .
6 And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know !
7 What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ?
8 I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’
9 When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession .
10 But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect .
11 ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’
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