Example sentences of "knew [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She understood his grief and his sense of loss and loneliness — she had been there herself , after the King 's death — and she knew about the feelings of despair and the long , long time the scars would take to heal , but she also knew about the importance of carrying on . |
| 32 | She understood his grief and his sense of loss and loneliness — she had been there herself , after the King 's death — and she knew about the feelings of despair and the long , long time the scars would take to heal , but she also knew about the importance of carrying on . |
| 33 | From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them . |
| 34 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 35 | Marc Bolan , who knew about these things , said it best : ‘ pop should be a spell . ’ |
| 36 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 37 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 38 | Do you know sweetheart I have often wondered since I knew about things whether a brother or sister ever did love with such a love as ours . |
| 39 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |
| 40 | So that 's how he knew about the grain . |
| 41 | It was a bedside lamp in the shape of an owl , except it was n't like any owl he knew about . |
| 42 | And if he could be sure of that , there must be other things that he knew about himself . |
| 43 | The small , folded sheets on which he was writing down the things he knew about himself . |
| 44 | What could he do that would sum up everything he knew about himself ? |
| 45 | Dot knew about Underground stations . |
| 46 | Dot already knew about hospitals . |
| 47 | In England a debutante of 1957 , Anne Browning , looked back on her season in Dance Little Lady in similar terms : ‘ If there was sex in the bushes , no one knew about it and it certainly was n't the accepted thing . |
| 48 | Later , sitting in the Lagonda with one hand on the steering wheel , Mungo tried to recall what he knew about the dead girl , apart from her name . |
| 49 | Sweetheart knew about these things . |
| 50 | Sweetheart knew about these things . |
| 51 | They all knew about the big house in its own grounds and the genuine Yankee jeep his father drove . |
| 52 | She wondered if Dorothea knew about the money and the will — if anyone knew , she would . |
| 53 | ‘ It was all my husband , ’ she told him , ‘ he knew about them , he bought them all . |
| 54 | ‘ You knew about this , did n't you ! |
| 55 | SHe could n't understand Tammuz' mania for disguise , given that nobody knew about what he had discovered , except for his friends below . |
| 56 | Cripples she knew about . |
| 57 | Nut-cases she knew about . |
| 58 | Cripples she knew about . |
| 59 | Nut-cases she knew about . |
| 60 | She had in fact made totally adequate arrangements for the children to be absorbed into a part of her extended family that none of us knew about . |