Example sentences of "know [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't know half the things he can make , Melanie . ’ |
| 2 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |
| 3 | . I do n't know half the people in area office to send them cards . |
| 4 | ‘ But you do n't know half the words he does ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It must be very useful , ’ James said with utter sincerity , ‘ to know all the rules of cricket by heart . ’ |
| 6 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 7 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |
| 8 | Why it comes in handy to know all the things that you could multiply together to know three hundred and sixty . |
| 9 | Clearly you do n't want to know all the syllabus so you 're gon na miss parts out but you 're better off knowing more topics in case some of the questions are difficult on the ones that you 've covered or they 're not on there at all When is the exam ? |
| 10 | Mother Francis says that if you have a questioning mind you get to know all the answers . ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand , care has to be taken to prevent the scope of applications being limited , as users can not be expected to know all the possibilities that computers offer . |
| 12 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 13 | As another said , ‘ Being a neighbourhood man , you get to know all the people in the area to chat to them , and they know you to talk to and that ’ ( FN 28/4/87 p. 5 ) . |
| 14 | And we got to know all the people there . |
| 15 | Get to know all the facts . |
| 16 | I have to know all the facts that might be relevant , not just some of them . ’ |
| 17 | That it 's very , very difficult indeed to be trained to know all the parts of it . |
| 18 | Quinn protested he did not know what Zack was talking about — it would have been too phoney to know all the details without a reminder . |
| 19 | You expect me to know all the details of what is happening in a legion of divisions ? ’ |
| 20 | My sister was curious to know all the details of my visit , and kept asking me question after question . |
| 21 | Er yeah , it 's gon na take the staff a long time to know all the names |
| 22 | She must also have had good sources of information , as she was said to know all the gossip of the village . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know all the reasons , but I know one or two . |
| 24 | But you 'll never know all the reasons why . |
| 25 | You get to lear know all the woods then . |
| 26 | 4.6 In relation to past loss the court will usually know all the factors relevant to the assessment of the loss . |
| 27 | Do you know all the way up to the twelve-times table ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do you know all the way here I 've been looking forward to your particular brand of polite conversation ? |
| 29 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 30 | One honest booklet on food and health explains , ‘ The main reason why there are conflicting views about the effect of food on health is that we simply do n't know all the answers yet . |