Example sentences of "know [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ye go up there to Cajamarca , behave like a whore , try and trade yer body fur information about the position of the Santa Maria del Sud , and now ye pretend ye do n't know who the man is . ’
2 We do n't know who the man was , let alone how he came to be in the river .
3 ‘ How come you 're so sure that 's what happened if you do n't know who the man is ? ’
4 I do know who the man is . ’
5 Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him .
6 Do you know who the builder is ?
7 I do n't know who the buyer was .
8 Since they do n't even know who the councillors are , I can only assume that North Tyneside is being victimised through ignorance and dogma .
9 ‘ How will we know who the message is for ? ’
10 Bridget too had a similar experience : " The other girls had mixed feelings , some of them were happy for me but some thought I was a slag and a tart and that I did n't know who the father was , and they were bitchy towards me when they passed in the corridors . "
11 Though we do n't know who the woman is .
12 Most of you wo n't even know who the MCofS are ; you 're certainly not all members ( did you know you could be ? ) and you probably do n't belong to an affiliated club .
13 Well , do you know who the fellow was , Great-gran ?
14 When she does n't know who the culprit is , she makes a guess at it , and the trouble is she 's often right .
15 It 's not something which is introduced for the first time in nineteen forty eight but , but there is erm sort of another round of it erm and sort of the new dimension is that the , everybody 's name is published because until then you , you did n't er you did n't know who the Party members were .
16 Erm s so you 've now got the situation in modern times where people probably go out to work all day , come home at the end and do n't even know who the names of the people living next door to them .
17 ‘ I do n't know who the fuck you are , or this Zam … whatever person is !
18 I do n't know who the fuck you cast and I do n't care , but him and I have this fight , right ? "
19 Do you know who the characters are ?
20 I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head .
21 I do n't know who the actor is , I know who he is
22 ‘ Which means , ’ I concluded wearily , ‘ that we do not know who the murderer really is , although we suspect Moodie .
23 I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police .
24 I do n't know who the Saintes-Maries were , or why there are more than one . "
25 Although there is an assumption that most of those people are little old ladies who live in the circumstances that I described earlier , I suspect that we do not really know who the beneficiaries will be , but if the Government do not know , they should tell us .
26 I , I do n't know who the hell gets it
27 I turned it on while you were there then and I did n't know who the hell it was !
28 We need to know who the members of assemblies actually represent and to what extent they are able to investigate and influence executive actions .
29 So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury .
30 We want to know who the boss is . ’
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