Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 2 | ‘ I now feel , after a year and a half on BP 's board , that I know enough about the company and the way it works to be able to make judgements about its style of management . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I do n't think I — I do n't think that I know enough about some of the issues , to go along with it completely . ’ |
| 4 | Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should . |
| 5 | Very little more than she knew already about their relationship . |
| 6 | It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned . |
| 7 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 8 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 9 | The way Matthew treats the Marcan source does not suggest that he knew more about the events concerned because he was an Apostle . |
| 10 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 11 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , assuming that all users are eventually registered , the data subject should be able to feel that he knows or can find out more than he knew hitherto about the extent to which he figures in the data banks . |
| 13 | So if I know less about it than I should , whose fault is that ? |
| 14 | ‘ I want to wait until I know more about the likely opposition . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to wait until I know more about the likely opposition . |
| 16 | ‘ But until I know more about which league we shall be in , there is no point in talking to players . ’ |
| 17 | It was very tempting , but it would be stupid to go across now , until I knew more about the tides . |
| 18 | Well , she was a doctor , and she knew enough about human physiology to know that healthy men and women sometimes reacted to each other in the most devastating ways . |
| 19 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 20 | Violence breeds violence , boyo , and we know more about it than most . |
| 21 | They must be able to demonstrate , for example , how a science teacher would be better equipped to understand children 's difficulties , if s/he knew more about dialects , registers or the nature of language . |
| 22 | ‘ We can not think in terms of locations until we know more about what kind of attraction is planned . ’ |
| 23 | At the start of the 1980s , it seemed to me that until we knew more about the answers to such questions then it would be hard to compare and make sense out of the varied and possibly conflicting results that were coming from different labs . |
| 24 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 25 | ‘ But if we 're going to spend the evening together I thought it would help if we knew more about each other 's backgrounds . ’ |
| 26 | They 'll never better Please Do n't Make Me Cry , and they know more about Neil Diamond 's Red Red Wine than he does . |
| 27 | Admittedly , Interpol 's writ does n't run worldwide — they would have zero clout in places , say , like Tripoli , Tehran or Beirut — and they are an information gathering and dispensing agency not an executive unit , and they know more about bad people than any other group in the world . |
| 28 | Richard Dunwoody and Gordon Richards both reckon that this will be the one to beat and they know more about this race than most these days for both have a fine record in the big chase . |
| 29 | He was not certain ; he would not trust the woman until he knew more about her presence here . |
| 30 | Spruce could not help feeling that if he knew more about Hereward and Amy , he would have more of a grip on the case . |