Example sentences of "i [vb base] know [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
2 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |
3 | I happen to know of a supply in Siena but I 'd rather you kept it dark . |
4 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
5 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
6 | That 's all , that 's only how I come to know about the treacle tins . ’ |
7 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
8 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
9 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
10 | This is the most useful facility I have known on the system . |
11 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
12 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
13 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |