Example sentences of "knew a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 2 | But at least we knew a lot of Shakespeare by heart , especially Agincourt . |
| 3 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 4 | ‘ She knew a lot of people , probably had quite a few lovers , but I think she was short on real friends . |
| 5 | I knew a lot of other people who were both gay and punks ; there was no question of having to establish yourself . |
| 6 | And because I knew a lot of people , you 'd do things for different motives . |
| 7 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 8 | He knew a lot about English ways of " not speaking " . |
| 9 | I knew a lot of it from way back , when Doctor Jenner was still here . |
| 10 | He knew a lot more than I did . |
| 11 | But , cos I knew a lot of the dra the drivers because er , they were local people like , you know . |
| 12 | She knew a lot of songs too . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Simpson knew a lot about life , ’ Edward once said . |
| 14 | Secondly he is concerned for the church in Rome , a church that he has never visited , though he obviously knew a lot of the leaders there . |
| 15 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 16 | She knew a lot about birds — she 'd have been perfectly able to do a short stint , teaching them to fly and so forth . |
| 17 | Artistically they felt out of their depth here , but when it came to spending the town 's money they knew a lot more than Herr Busacher did . |
| 18 | Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client . |
| 19 | One can reasonably say that British opera-goers in 1945 knew a lot fewer works than their modern counterparts and knew them , by and large , in less good and faithful performances . |
| 20 | I think because everybody else was erm already in erm and knew a lot more I sometimes |
| 21 | Both Mrs Maybury and her niece , Celia , gave the impression that they knew a lot more than they were admitting . |
| 22 | She knew a lot about his lovemaking technique , though , and that was n't anything to be proud of . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew a lot of people from the club because their ‘ B ’ team competed against Middlesbrough in the Northern League . |
| 24 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 25 | And we just , he knew a lot of the , he was interested in si singing and he just knew the words and and just sang round about the house . |
| 26 | He knew a lot more about Rose Hilaire , and a lot more about himself . |
| 27 | They had stayed talking very late last night , and he knew a lot more about her than she had ever expected to tell anyone , while she knew something about him . |
| 28 | Because I knew a lot of nouns and a lot of verbs , I could get by when I went to Algeria in |
| 29 | She knew a lot of telly . |
| 30 | Now I was I would n't say surprised because the matter is already well know , but I found an additional piece of evidence for the proposition that while they knew a lot about what happened to their commodities in their countries — how it was produced , how it was distributed internally and how it was sold internationally — they generally did n't have very much information as to what happened afterwards . |