Example sentences of "they knew [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realising how little they knew about the subject , she and two staff midwives from Wythenshawe began to research the needs of deaf women during pregnancy . |
| 2 | ‘ George did n't want to put the business at the cottage to them , you can see why , and it 's pretty clear they do n't want to believe in a conspiracy anyway , even when they knew about the Reznichenko Memorandum . ’ |
| 3 | I mean they knew they knew about the chiller at time cos I think said |
| 4 | Between them Rain and Oliver told Cobalt almost all they knew about the night of the murder and about the paintings . |
| 5 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 6 | He wondered whether they knew about the baby . |
| 7 | They knew of the construction of the sewer , and they ought to have appreciated the possibility of damage to their mains and taken appropriate action to prevent or rectify it . |
| 8 | ‘ I wonder if they knew of the plan . ’ |
| 9 | All the time he was on stage , it was difficult for audiences to think of him as other than the ‘ Carry On ’ character or the voice they knew on the radio or now on television . |
| 10 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 11 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |