Example sentences of "to know [pron] about the [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
2 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
3 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
4 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
5 | I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox . |
6 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
7 | We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers . |
8 | It 's good to know something about the man . |
9 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
10 | A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child . |
11 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
12 | ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’ |
13 | The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality . |
14 | To understand Theory Z , it will be helpful to know something about the characteristics of large Japanese firms . |
15 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
16 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
17 | In another presidential address , this time to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues , Stotland ( 1977 ) spoke on the topic of ‘ white-collar criminals ’ and argued that although we were beginning to know something about the people who commit white-collar and corporate crime , we ought to intensify our efforts . |
18 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
19 | You you do n't have to know anything about the problem to specify them . |
20 | But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’ |
21 | In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship . |