Example sentences of "had [adv] know the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since I am like to be murdered for it , I had better know the tune ! ’ |
| 2 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 3 | Ashley had not known the debris existed and watched in amazement as one refuse skip after another was filled . |
| 4 | Nowadays , and especially under the younger leaders of the Soviet Union who had not known the horrors of the Second World War , they used assassination very sparingly indeed . |
| 5 | They had not known the result of the battle until now . |
| 6 | This was certainly a strange case , but he had not known the Pitts and he saw plenty of messy deaths . |
| 7 | As though he had always known the Wall should disappear , the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevarnadze , described as ‘ wise and sensible ’ the East German decision to open it up . |
| 8 | Jeopardy had always known the future , or had perhaps chosen it himself that day . |
| 9 | ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ , released in ‘ 85 , was the majestic , towering album that Talk Talk 's growing legion of fans had always known the band could make . |
| 10 | Somewhere , buried deep in his memory , Harry sensed that he had once known the word . |
| 11 | Tom Rooney knew Patrick Montgomery 's identity ; like Joseph Hyde he had also known the Madam in Dublin and was all too aware of her reputation . |
| 12 | They had both known the house when " old Gwen " was its chatelaine . |
| 13 | If I had n't known the Sun was a star , I 'd never have got it . |
| 14 | She had n't known the lighting would play such an important part . |
| 15 | He had n't known the box would be so heavy . |
| 16 | The younger generation , who had never known the Weimar or Nazi eras , still less the Wilhelmine Empire , had little understanding of those who had lived through earlier turmoils . |
| 17 | He had never known the man , but it was his fault . |
| 18 | He had never known the love of a woman , nor children of his own . |
| 19 | Lizzy had never known the love of a father , a real father . |
| 20 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |