Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would take Josh and Kathy , go to cosy , comfortable London , where she knew so many people , and there she would sort out her life . |
| 2 | But mastering any chemical theory first without practical experience can leave the student in a state where he or she knows so much about the sodium atom that he can no longer appreciate the silvery metal that behaves so spectacularly on the bench . |
| 3 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 4 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 5 | ‘ I see that I know very little . |
| 6 | ‘ You introduced me to Paris and it will be my turn to introduce you to England — not that I know very much about London . |
| 7 | But if you know the difference between guitar sounds that you hear on the radio , for instance , then I would maintain that you know too much . |
| 8 | No men in her life , really , not even her natural father , because he 'd gone away , emigrated , so she knew very little about men . |
| 9 | Warfare provides one , although we know very little of the period . |
| 10 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 11 | Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops . |
| 12 | But one thing is clear : although we know so little about it , this was a major crisis . |
| 13 | That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it . |
| 14 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 15 | These two men went directly to the site to place on record the facts of the find and it is from them that we know so much of Hailing Man . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's not fair , ’ Cranston interrupted , ‘ is that we know so little about last night . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if Satan is the opposite of God it seems to me that we know very much less about him , and yet , his works are rather more evident , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 18 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 19 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 20 | It 's a business that is increasingly professional in its approach , because we are also in a business where we have to convince our clients that we know as much about what we do in our companies as they know about theirs . |
| 21 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 22 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 23 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 24 | Rick felt that he knew very little about practical mathematics apart from ‘ making a scale drawing of the minibus and taking kids out to measure the rugby pitch ’ and even less about investigations and problem-solving . |
| 25 | And what you are telling me is that he knew very well Aldhelm was to come here that night . |
| 26 | And I know so many songs that it would be fun to go out there and say , ‘ Hey , man , do you remember this one ? ’ or , ‘ Here 's one you have n't heard in a long time . ' ’ |
| 27 | And I know only one way you do that . |
| 28 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 29 | There he was , trying to blackmail me to leave the company or face a false charge of fraud , and I knew so much about his underhand behaviour . |
| 30 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |