Example sentences of "he knew [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 2 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 3 | Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun . |
| 4 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 5 | He knew nothing about the world — his children did n't even go to school . |
| 6 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 7 | It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations . |
| 8 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 9 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 10 | Youatt , in 1839 , wrote that the appointment of Vial as Professor was a flagrant and irreparable error , for he knew nothing of the diseases of cattle and their treatment . |
| 11 | But he knew nothing of the Pacific 's tides . |
| 12 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 13 | He knew nothing of the girl Louise Taylor , other than that she had arrived at Buckingham Palace three months earlier and had spent time coaching the prince and the duchess in Russian . |
| 14 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 15 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 16 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |
| 17 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 18 | As the evening wore on , he asked Derek if he knew anything about the Ulster Defence Association or anybody in it . |