Example sentences of "know [adv] [pron] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But maybe this time they wo n't know exactly what to expect from us . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't even know how he escaped from Tracy . ’ |
| 3 | Some make preliminary enquiries then wait a few years but many feel it is so desperately important to know where they came from and who they belonged to that they go ahead . |
| 4 | I wanted to know where they came from and why : how they were treated ; and what had become of them . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody seemed to know where they came from , but there they were in the Forest : Kanga and Baby Roo . |
| 6 | Your mother will want to know where they came from . |
| 7 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 8 | ‘ To know where it came from . ’ |
| 9 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |
| 10 | You do n't happen to know where it came from , do you ? ’ |
| 11 | I look at it and I want to know where it comes from . |
| 12 | What I do is n't singing about myself , I kinda make up these little stories , I do n't know where they come from … |
| 13 | I do n't know where they come from , they 're breeding . |
| 14 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 15 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 16 | I do n't know where they come from |
| 17 | ‘ I just do n't know where we go from here , ’ said Castle . |
| 18 | Kinnear moaned : ‘ I do n't know where we go from here . |
| 19 | I do n't know where he comes from , though I think I 've seen him around occasionally . ’ |
| 20 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't look at me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I do n't know where it came from . |
| 22 | Victor and George ended up riding a spare horse — I do n't know where it came from — and then we went to where they 'd come from . |
| 23 | If he has ‘ style ’ he does n't know where it came from or what it is . |
| 24 | Oh I do n't know where it came from it 's been a long time . |
| 25 | I do n't understand it but I seem to have found some extra money in my purse and I do n't know where it came from . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know where it comes from . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know where it comes from . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know where it comes from . |
| 29 | It is his mysterious wind , which man can not get under his own tidy control : as Nicodemus was reminded by Jesus , ‘ The wind ( pneuma ) blows where it will , and you hear its sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes I hear a whistle , but I do n't know where it comes from . |