Example sentences of "he knew [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him .
4 But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving .
5 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 ’ .
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