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Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] know " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You 'd better know the theory and the practice of the venue 's fire regulations .
2	‘ You 'd better know — unofficially — that an alert for Tweed has now gone out secretly to our counter-espionage friends and certain police chiefs in Europe .
3	Mrs Keating shouted , ‘ I think you 'd better know , I intend to write to the school about this . ’
4	‘ As I say , this is supposed to be Top Secret , but you 'd better know if you 're to be any help .
5	You 'd better know now that I 've always avoided every snare set out for me , even those hidden in lush undergrowth … ’ he caressed her hair lightly , his eyes sultry , and then looked down towards the swell of her breasts ‘ … and innocent-looking hills and valleys . ’
6	‘ Well , perhaps we 'd better know how we stand . ’
7	It 's the law of the jungle , kid , and you 'd better know it . ’
8	‘ I d-did n't know you had married her , Beckenham — I mean , Dacre . ’
9	‘ The White Rabbit had put on his spectacles , but he did not know where to start .
10	I did not know what to do with it , why I was there .
11	I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong .
12	I said I did not know — I did n't know what I was letting myself in for .
13	with one exception , all [ scholars ] contacted have expressed strongly that the service did not appear to see the practical relevance of university training , did not know how to exploit the benefits gained by the individual and in many cases showed noticeable coolness to those who were part of it .
14	Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know .
15	He did not know of one who had anything to thank the Flemyngs for , or old Menzies at the Castle .
16	As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear .
17	Possibly he also washed his face , she did not know , never having asked him .
18	Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water .
19	In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine .
20	‘ Oh , there 's Laura in the other room ’ Maggie waved cheerily to a woman she did not know .
21	Bees — the bumble and the honey — and butterflies — red admirals and small , delicate blue ones whose name I did not know — tilted at each other in the warm summer air .
22	Thus , Oedipus married Jocasta and knew he did ; he also married his mother and did not know he did .
23	Yet this writer 's abiding impression of the eighties is that management along with the government did not know when to stop .
24	Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved .
25	While Wasps could relax and enjoy their Goldington Road romp , Bedford learned nothing that they did not know already .
26	He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition .
27	He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do .
28	‘ Lord Aldington did not know about the massacre and brutality .
29	He says he did not know it had been .
30	‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 .