Example sentences of "know the [noun sg] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do I know the history of this building ? ’ asked the Israeli Jew in the museum curator 's office . |
| 2 | some of you may not know the history of this decision . |
| 3 | Do you know the name of this sea that we face ? ’ |
| 4 | We simply do not know the answer to this question but brief mention of the complexity of a human individual 's environment may suffice at this point to indicate how elaborate the considerations will have to be . |
| 5 | My mother had already told him that she did n't know the answer to this question . |
| 6 | Chemists do n't know the answer to this question . |
| 7 | I mean erm , I do n't know the height of this room , but erm , I could not begin to guess in metres , but I would think , you know , a door is six foot six , traditionally in height , add a couple of feet on , it 's , you know . |
| 8 | The villages do not know the cause of this illness . |
| 9 | You must know the feeling of this meeting first must n't you ? |
| 10 | We want to know the size of this angle without drawing the triangle you know that the three angles of a triangle must add up to 180° Also the two angles given add up to . |
| 11 | I do n't want to know the name of this singer , I want to know the name of the other singer with the same name . |
| 12 | Jack wishes to know the return on this investment . |
| 13 | Every employee occasionally wants to know the answer to this question . |
| 14 | He was curiously keen to know the answer to this question . |
| 15 | I would be extremely interested to know the thinking behind this policy , and look forward to your assurance that next time I buy Spare Rib from W H Smith I will find it in the Women 's Section . |
| 16 | Now I want to know the truth about this coat business , I wo n't say anything to him do n't worry ! |
| 17 | I would rather give half my country away than know the secret of this powder . |
| 18 | Know the name of this station ? ’ |
| 19 | I think I know the name of this kiss . |
| 20 | . Mom you know the quality of this sound recording thing well it 's not very good . |
| 21 | Not knowing the vintage of this picture , the Doctor and Barbara set off in search of Ian and Vicki . |
| 22 | She looked alarmed , and even though I knew the significance of this rite , because Nour had told me , for a moment I shared her confusion , her small anxiety at the thought of the violence of that long-past nuptial night . |
| 23 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
| 24 | If we knew the answer to this question , we should be close to understanding the clinically important issue of how the expression of opsin genes is controlled . |
| 25 | He knew the reason for this meeting . |
| 26 | She thought she knew the cause of this mood and in a way she was glad to see it . |
| 27 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 28 | I , do n't go , he knows the answer to this question maybe the Home Office will be able to provide with it . |