Example sentences of "[verb] know at " in BNC.

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1 You 'd want to know at once . ’
2 Nevertheless , clauses 9.1 and 9.2 are dangerous as a tenant will prefer to know at the outset whether any defects affect the premises and the tenant 's solicitor should amend them as follows :
3 If he and Devlin leave Portugal together I want to know at once . ’
4 Underlying this simplistic approach is sound reasoning , namely that your audience needs to know at all times where they are during your presentation .
5 On such occasions the airline needs to know at the earliest possible moment whether there is something inherently wrong with its equipment , procedures or training , and therefore the official investigators should keep the airline fully informed of the factual material it establishes as the investigation proceeds .
6 The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay .
7 For now the point is that the drafter needs to know at the outset whether any of the business 's customers will fall within the definition of " consumer " : if so , care must be taken in drafting clauses excluding or limiting liability .
8 If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day .
9 I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’
10 He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time .
11 Public opinion on proposals for change is made known at public enquiries .
12 The exercise was regarded by the then minister for health in Scotland , Michael Forsyth , as a piece of ‘ action ’ research , the results of which would be made known at intervals during the evaluation .
13 ‘ Well , you seem to know at least one of them , ’ I say .
14 The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax .
15 He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck .
16 We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school .
17 According to Charles Rycroft , Artemidorus required to know at least six facts about a dream before it could be interpreted — " Whether the events depicted in the dream were plausible or bizarre ; whether they were approximately interconnected ; whether they were customary for the dreamer ; what events prior to the dream could have influenced it ; and the dreamer 's name and occupation " .
18 Of course , she told herself , she should have known at once that he was n't Kettering .
19 I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes .
20 Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties .
21 But I do know at least one of his choices , the one that would top his list : something by the Shotts Pipe Band .
22 yes , but they do know , le let's go back a bit further , but they do know at the beginning of the world most of it is water
23 All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal .
24 Erm I did know at that particular time know what it was to have holes in my shoes , and a piece of cardboard put into it to protect your foot from the hole .
25 It is of some interest that these attachments are very similar to those of Lewis Carroll ( Charles L. Dodgson , q.v. ) , whom Kilvert is said to have known at Oxford .
26 The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization .
27 One of the younger adopted children she had known at school , a very charming and beautiful girl of Indian parentage , some years later made contact with her again , and they talked about fashions and make-up together .
28 He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace .
29 Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland .
30 The feelings retained their freshness in his memory : the delicious agony of watching her ; the frustration of not being able to touch her ; the pleasure he had when someone he had known at school passed along the towpath , looked up and saw him , Peter Redburn , having a drink with Kate Molland .
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