Example sentences of "know [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 2 | If there 's a traffic jam anywhere the new information unit will let you know about it on the hour as well . |
| 3 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 4 | The body 's mechanism takes over because the logical consequence of that would be to die , and we can see here that there is an arousal of something like eight to ten seconds , and during that period the patient would wake up , probably not sufficient that they would know about it in the morning , and we can see here that the breathing starts again . |
| 5 | Had a slight operation and er I did n't know about it until today so erm er Paul 's going to offer him our good wishes and we 're going to be , I 'm told he 's home again and it 's , it 's only quite a minor operation and he 's quite well and that er hopefully will be back again next week . |
| 6 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 7 | you 'd probably know about it before our police force do , the way villages work . |
| 8 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 9 | She explained that she wanted someone outside her family to know about them in case anything should happen to her before she would be able to raise the issue with someone with influence in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 11 | But then there 's a funny thing , Yellow Pages are some people you get a contact through Yellow Pages er which is not actually selling crackers but somebody wanted to know about you for something else you know , like . |
| 12 | What the experts want to know about you at your antenatal clinic Nancy Stewart |
| 13 | What did she know of him after all ? |
| 14 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 15 | However , some people are more affected by nerves than others so be ready to take this into account and to give people a chance to rethink or rephrase an answer , especially if it seems out of keeping with previous answers or what you know about them from their c.v . |
| 16 | ‘ But I know about it of course , ’ she 'd protested . |
| 17 | On that talking point perhaps , would you go through the Channel Tunnel , knowing what you know about it at the moment ? |
| 18 | Though I only know about it from what men say . |
| 19 | Erm I think that those are erm er disadvantages with which any er possible location in Harrogate er District would start and I do n't think the assessment in Mr 's paper er accurately reflects either the criterion in the structure plan er in terms of assimilation , or indeed the nature of the landscape erm and what I know of it in the Harrogate District . |
| 20 | Erm this guy that I was working for h he 's er he he was quite well known for it in the area . |
| 21 | It is a paradox that very little is known about him as a person ; although he was respected by the men , he kept his distance . |
| 22 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 24 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
| 25 | Everyone has known about it for years . ’ |
| 26 | The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year . |
| 27 | One of the notebook crowd climbed aboard and came into the dining car , inviting anyone who had seen anyone or anything suspicious the previous evening to please unbutton , but of course no one had , or no one was saying , because otherwise the whole train would have known about it by now . |
| 28 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 29 | Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward . |
| 30 | Nothing is known of him before 1742 when he was manager of a cotton-mill in Northampton , and took a leading part in the intellectual life of the town , as a member of the Philosophical Society and a lecturer on scientific subjects . |