Example sentences of "know [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |