Example sentences of "[verb] to know [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they do so we tend to know fewer of the people we see in them . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall want to know all about you , and each time you fail to answer , I 'm afraid I shall have to use my little persuader . ’ |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know any of you , I do n't want to know any of you ! |
| 5 | But Tom Russell would n't want to know any of this . |
| 6 | ‘ His tactical awareness was second to none — but he did n't want to know some of the more boring aspects of management . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 8 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 9 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 10 | At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings ; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning . |
| 11 | Soon Endill got to know more of the library . |
| 12 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 13 | There were only about 50 participants , which meant you got to know most of them . |
| 14 | Again the shadow was in her eyes , and Fergus , who would have wished to know more of this , felt her retreat a little from him . |
| 15 | ‘ What I want to know first of all is does the national team have an important role to play ? ’ he said . |
| 16 | We want to know all about this party last night . |
| 17 | I want to know all about kidnappings . |
| 18 | in the Regional Council and they now want to know all about them see |
| 19 | They 're very much involved with networked community care , to use their own phrase , and those of you who want to know more about them , they 've got a stall outside , and er , their wares so to say , are set out for you to see . |
| 20 | If you want to know more about it , pick up a leaflet . |
| 21 | The protesters say they want to know more about the process , and that it 's a mistake for the government to legalize irradiation without proper research . |
| 22 | Pragmatically , I suggested to the officers that a summary of those papers be sent to all members of council in the interests of saving paper , and that if you see something you want to know more about , you then go and talk to David Turner , is that agreeable ? |
| 23 | And of course what I want to know most of all is why Paul 's number plate happened to be in Lord Cumbermound 's stable . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They appear to know some of the same people . ’ |
| 25 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 26 | Likewise obviously for land and access , because we will need to know that for the survey work involved . |
| 27 | You do n't even need to know much about the theories behind behaviour modification . |
| 28 | ( You do not need to know much about the topic to do this ; you only need to be able to identify what you would need to know . ) |
| 29 | I have now visited the clinics twice and have come to know many of the volunteer workers from Australia , France , Holland and Britain as well as many of the patients living in the Calcutta slums . |
| 30 | Now , here in Devon , she suddenly wants to know all about why a fish is oily near the spine and how you cut and salt it . |