Example sentences of "he knew about the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She waited as he pointed up the quay , bursting to ask how he knew about the Quakers , let alone where they met .
2 Lord Aldington was asked what he knew about the Yugoslavs who had been repatriated by the British Eight Army 's V Corps while he was chief of staff to its commander , General Sir Charles Keightley .
3 He knew about the river ; in different times might have worked on it , happily and well .
4 So that 's how he knew about the grain .
5 We were asking Fish Sparks as we call him how he knew about the fish that swims up your pee and he said he 'd seen some fat explorer fellow on the box going on about it , which sounded likely enough .
6 Perhaps he was a policeman , and he knew about the heroin . ’
7 PREMIER John Major was under increasing pressure yesterday to spell out how much he knew about the Iraqgate scandal .
8 As a prophet Daniel had his limitations — Though he knew about the intervention of Rome in 168 B.C. which saved Egypt from conquest by Syria , he prophesied another war between Egypt and Syria , as if the Romans would not again have intervened .
9 He knew about the light shining in darkness , and had come , for reasons completely different from Alexander 's desire for exactness , specificity , to mistrust figurative language .
10 Before he knew about the Corsican .
11 If he knew about the baby , what would he call me then ?
12 In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ?
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