Example sentences of "and know [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , that unless you have inspected the wedding list and know everybody on both sides of the family you can never be sure who is in a large audience . |
| 2 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 3 | This area — even if he had been a total stranger to the city , and know nothing of its history , would have immediately advertised itself as the red-light district — even the very air seemed tainted by the smells of cheap perfume and sex . |
| 4 | display quite appalling ignorance of other parts of the subject — it does n't seem to matter too much to the arts faculty or the historians , that you concentrate on something here and know nothing about important things elsewhere . |
| 5 | ‘ Most people have , and know something about the legend attached to them . |
| 6 | Sir , — I read the article in the October issue , When growth and stability turned to disaster ( see p 26 ) , with a good deal of interest having worked with a professional firm in the Isle of Wight in the fifties , and knowing something of the type of clientele referred to . |
| 7 | He liked a good gossip and knew something about everybody in the area . |
| 8 | George I could speak no English and knew nothing of British monarchy and duties , so an inner council of ministers was formed under the leading politicians and , by 1720 , the ‘ cabinet government ’ was well established . |
| 9 | Nicephorus Phocas had mocked Liudprand of Cremona in the tenth century because western armies consisted solely of knights and knew nothing of siegecraft . |
| 10 | ‘ Ted is not local , ’ he told Tamar , ‘ and knew nothing of the danger of that marsh . |
| 11 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 12 | From the other end of the telephone , on another continent , in another world where people slept soundly in their beds and knew nothing of battle , the familiar voice that had ordered me into so many hells was sending me back , this time to the lowest rung . |
| 13 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 14 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 15 | It was 1942 before he was allowed back at Fox to make another film — Zanuck was as that time away on war service and knew nothing about it . |
| 16 | She was a Scots Presbyterian from Edinburgh and knew nothing about the theatre , but just knew I was going to do it . |
| 17 | She was not told of the foster mother 's application for leave to apply for a residence order and knew nothing about it until after leave had been granted . |
| 18 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 19 | I had been far away at the time , and knew nothing about any murder . |
| 20 | John from Glasgow Rangers fan is serving in the army in Germany , and knew nothing about Carolyn 's unusual choice of dress . |
| 21 | Other boys ' mothers had rough hands and plain faces and knew nothing except cleaning and cooking . |
| 22 | Mr Litmus was quite certain he had n't and knew none of the other teachers had either . |
| 23 | God sees and knows everything at all times , he allows nothing to happen he does not wish to , even , strangely , the Fall of Man . |
| 24 | So now he 's just an uneducated farm worker , and knows nothing of the world . |
| 25 | A drive that is ‘ unaware ’ of how it is set up and knows nothing of the way it 's data is stored . |