Example sentences of "know [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
| 2 | It is therefore important that foreign language teachers should know about first language acquisition not only in children in the pre-school period , which is most often introduced to compare with foreign language learning , but also in the learners they are dealing with . |
| 3 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 4 | ‘ We must know about each other , , I answered . |
| 5 | ‘ The insurance sector , and indeed large areas of the financial sector , had never really focused on modern financial management — everyone working in the industry thinks they know about finance , and maybe they do , but they do n't know about financial control . ’ |
| 6 | I do not know about that kind of radical suggestion , but the police were very successful last year in closing down four domestic manufacturers of Ecstasy — hence the fact that most of the drug being sold on our streets comes from abroad , some from continental Europe . |
| 7 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 8 | Oh I do n't know about that guv . |
| 9 | Not that you 'd know about that sort of feeling , would you ? |
| 10 | What do you know about that world , Steve ? |
| 11 | Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either . |
| 12 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 13 | Then I rang Pusey : it was time , I felt , that we had a conference , and I asked him to get hold of Seddon and , if possible , someone from his old acquaintances at the Foreign Office who would know about current politics in North and West Africa . |
| 14 | What on earth does she know about real life ? ’ she would demand when Constance had quoted something her friend had said . |
| 15 | Furthermore , I never even hinted that Hartley did n't know about these tube factories in Czechoslovakia and China . |
| 16 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 17 | They say , ‘ Do n't know about those neon lights , they 're sort of an acquired taste . |
| 18 | Was it a typing error , or is there something I do n't know about Italian publishing ? |
| 19 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 20 | The inspectors are aware that many people do n't know about this law so they will usually give just a warning to first offenders . |
| 21 | However , serious disorientation with loss of control resulting in an accident , can and does occur and all pilots should know about this problem and how to deal with it . |
| 22 | What did he know about this man , Myles Burke ? |
| 23 | ‘ So what do you know about this man who 's trying to kill me ? ’ |
| 24 | What did she know about this man , really ? |
| 25 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 26 | The others , they will never know about this second thing . |
| 27 | These two travellers were apparently strangers in the area , yet how did they know about this forest path leading to a glade with water to refresh themselves ? |
| 28 | He should know about this right away . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do your parents know about this trouble you 're in ? ’ |
| 30 | Now : what do you know about this place ? |