Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] known a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came in one day and asked what M C C stood for , and I 've always known a lot of useless information , so I could tell him , so I was then dispatched everyday to the erm radio shop in the High Street , to get the cricket scores in Australia . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never known a place where ye get so much wine . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never known a girl to make such a fuss over talking to her mother , I 'm losing my temper with you , Angharad , for heaven 's sake get on with it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never known a player with a more positive attitude , and that has been especially valuable with so many inexperienced lads in the squad . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never known a house with so much roof . |
| 7 | I 've often noticed it in men and I 've never known a woman to behave as weirdly as a man . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never known a woman like you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never known a man empty a church as fast as Marr . |
| 10 | Er , I I do apologise but erm I 've never known a fox yet drop a cattle , a stock , er something that big , when , when you said farmers and their cattle , their d mostly dairy farmers and all the rest of it I 've never seen a fox do that . |
| 11 | ’ I 've never known a case where one person has been a victim of so many crimes . ’ |
| 12 | But even standing still the Flying Scotsman is impressive , especially to those who 've never known a steam train . |
| 13 | Paula Wilson , regional publicity officer for the RSPCA , said : ‘ We 've never known a time like it in years , people are ringing us every day asking to take animals off their hands , they just ca n't afford to keep them . ’ |
| 14 | I 've never known a Christmas like this Brenda . |
| 15 | I 've never known a dog eat so many wasps ! |
| 16 | I 've never known a puppy like it . |
| 17 | I 've never known a place like it ! |
| 18 | I 've never known a bloke like it ! |
| 19 | But I have rarely known a patient need more than four sessions of hypnosis after the discovery of the original source of the problem . |
| 20 | ‘ I have never known a patient wait for 10 hours for an ambulance for an inter-hospital transfer — and I hope never to know it again , ’ she said . |
| 21 | I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice . |
| 22 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 23 | I 've always done this , and have never known a horse get chapped heels or skin infections — whereas I have known horses whose owners follow the first course get mud fever . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I have never known a team who force you into a corner so much . |
| 25 | So new slants are being tried , and I have never known a year with so many titles getting the multicover treatment in one form or another . |
| 26 | Sounding for all the world as though she quite hated him , Gwen commented disgustedly , ‘ I have never known a child to get so dirty ! ’ |
| 27 | Crilly , I have never known a man like you . |
| 28 | I have never known a Member of Parliament so unwilling to accept the work that has been done by the Ministry on behalf of his constituents . |
| 29 | I have never known a time when central Government have interfered so much in the day-to-day running of the town halls . |
| 30 | There are out there people of thirty plus who have never known a Labour government , who only know what they see and read . |