Example sentences of "he know of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was encouraged , because it seemed she could rely absolutely on that devoted attention , but discouraged , too , because he looked and was so young , and what could he know of marriage and widowhood , and the things that happen to women ? |
| 2 | Does he know of Human 's row ? |
| 3 | Indeed de Gaulle would not have been in the least surprised had he known of Kennedy 's assurance to Macmillan in April 1961 that Anglo-American relations would be strengthened by British entry . |
| 4 | He knew of attendance by Stepan Holovich at NTS meetings in Paddington , and had the date that a father had taken his son to a house off the Cromwell Road to celebrate the National Day of the Ukrainian exiles with supermarket Italian wine and kitchen table cheese . |
| 5 | Mr Barnes was delighted to hear from him , which made Peter suspect that he knew of Coleby 's interest in 29 Champney Road . |
| 6 | He did n't mind being with Richard — being with Richard was almost like being with himself — and he liked what he knew of Mrs Molland . |
| 7 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |
| 8 | From what he knew of government , it was normal . |
| 9 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 10 | He knew of course that Theo would equivocate . |
| 11 | He knew of course that he would never be able to halt the train before it reached the bridge and he had his guard 's safety to think about . |
| 12 | He knew of course , because Barbara had told him , that James had already missed one deadline and was more than likely to miss another . |
| 13 | He tried to recall what he knew of Nicholas Braithwaite 's only child . |
| 14 | Tom Horrocks reflected for a moment on the little he knew of Emilia Frere . |
| 15 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 16 | That he knew of death 's approach and had time to prepare for it , and that others knew and were preparing too , is implied not only by S 975 but also the rapidity of the ætheling Alfred 's actions late in the year . |
| 17 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 18 | He knew of Matthew 's bitterness towards Beth , and deplored it . |
| 19 | He knew of Ken 's depressions . |
| 20 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
| 21 | I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office . |
| 22 | But he knew of pupils handing in assignments to teachers to have the spelling and punctuation corrected before being submitted for grading . |
| 23 | Sir Philip angrily pressed the innkeeper to say whatever he knew of Coleridge , and was at last told the innocent truth : |