Example sentences of "[verb] know of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say he somehow got to know of Aldhelm 's coming , even so by avoiding he could only delay recognition , not prevent it , he would have to reappear in the end . |
| 2 | Examples include a driver being stung by bees , having an epileptic fit or loss of control because of a latent defect provided the driver did not and could not reasonably be expected to know of the defect . |
| 3 | B has infringed the patent for the computer chips even if he did not know or could not be expected to know of the patent . |
| 4 | Too often business has been inward looking and has not been sufficiently rigorous in pursuing the question of who needs to know of changes in its practices and needs . |
| 5 | You would never need to know of recruitment companies . |
| 6 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 7 | SHOP stewards at Leyland-DAF 's Albion Works revealed yesterday that the Government has known of the truckmaker 's financial difficulties for a number of months . |
| 8 | Would they be shocked or would they appear to know of it ? |
| 9 | Mrs X had no idea what she had done wrong — I eventually came to know of this situation and arranged accommodation with an Asian family . |
| 10 | Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’ |
| 11 | How much should Fairfax be seen to know of Claudia 's love affair with the laibon 's brother , Tepilit ? |
| 12 | Or had she only been cold because she 'd known of her husband 's friendship with a beautiful young Irish girl ? |
| 13 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 14 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 15 | A two-thirds majority will be necessary to bring the new set-up into being at the beginning of the 1994-95 season , but last night a Premier Division chairman claimed to know of three others from the top 12 who would , along with his club , vote against the proposal . |
| 16 | I happen to know of a supply in Siena but I 'd rather you kept it dark . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I happen to know of such a drug . |
| 18 | Is that a Bernard or one that you happen to know of ? |
| 19 | THE ARBITERS of Britain 's nuclear future , now sitting at the Sizewell inquiry , might like to know of a new hazard connected with pressurised-water reactors . |
| 20 | As many ponds are in beautiful gardens many readers may like to know of a possible source of free fertiliser . |
| 21 | And so she would n't like to know of your visits to a certain house in Bog 's End , would she ? ’ |
| 22 | In any event we would like to know of any intending applicants for training , even if they are unable to come to the Potential Teachers ' Day . |
| 23 | In the meantime the scandal had received such widespread publicity that every collector in Moscow and Leningrad had got to know of it , and they were all afraid of having anything to do with me . |
| 24 | Of course , the label or promotional literature as constituting a representation would have to induce the representee to enter the main contract of sale and he would have to know of it prior to the contract . |
| 25 | ‘ As I do not have the good fortune to know your family , Emilia , I am hardly in a position to say , though I feel sure they would wish to know of your distress . ’ |
| 26 | Nothing seems known of Roger 's early career . |
| 27 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 28 | Law Report : Jury should not have known of co-defendant 's guilty plea : Regina v Mattison — Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Justice Mustill , Mr Justice Nolan and Mr Justice Saville ) , 5 October 1989 |
| 29 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 30 | Nevertheless Fraser McLuskey 's account of air crashes does suggest that the Maquis or the local French population in general would soon have known of planes which had come down in their territory , and that the Germans , when told of wrecks , did in fact bury the crews in identifiable graves . |