Example sentences of "[vb infin] know [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One other thing they 'll want to know is the real reason why Sara was in father 's office at just after six this morning . ’ |
| 2 | d you do n't have to be that specific , you 'd , really you 'd want to know is it erm |
| 3 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 4 | What we do need to know is er who is coming from each function . |
| 5 | We do the first bit who needs to be trained what do they need to know is the second |
| 6 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 7 | The second thing that I would like to know is what happens if I put larger tyres on my vehicle , it has the standard crossply 's at the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ What I would like to know is why you saw fit to tell barefaced lies to your grandmother while your Dad and I were on holiday . ’ |
| 9 | What I would like to know is : what damage is the soot doing to my fish and do I have just cause to go to the council to get something done about it ? |
| 10 | What I would like to know is whether a private company , whose accounting period ends on 30 April , is exempt from prosecution for failing to file accounts by 30 February ? |
| 11 | However , what I would like to know is , where is Phoebe , the sun , these days ? |
| 12 | And what I 'd like to know is is the board . |
| 13 | But what I 'd like to know is , how about What's-His-Name ? |
| 14 | Twenty nine in the class so what I 'd like to know is erm draw the Venn diagram and find out the numbers of students in every section of the diagram . |
| 15 | What I 'd like to know is , what 's wrong with English food ? |
| 16 | What IPPL would like to know is how zoos intend to get their new gibbons without encouraging unscrupulous animal dealers who are ever-ready to supply a demand . |
| 17 | But what I would like to know is , any of you know for certain that you want to come to either of the parts of those that day , in the evening or the afternoon ? |
| 18 | It was time to move on to the offensive : ‘ What I 'd like to know is how you managed to see Newley in Primrose Hill at six o'clock . ’ |
| 19 | But what I dearly would like to know is why you 're always so damned suspicious ! ’ |
| 20 | What the public would like to know is whether the Opposition , including the hon. Member for Cunninghame , North and the Front-Bench spokesman , the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) , were aware that that document was not a genuine document , but was something prepared , no doubt , for political purposes . |
| 21 | What the west midlands would like to know is whether he will now do what he has not already done , that is , repudiate the motion of the TUC to reject alien investment — as it describes Japanese investment — in this country . |
| 22 | He goes on , ‘ What I would like to know is just who produced this paper . |
| 23 | Mick , what I 'd like to know is and this links in with our other discussions this morning and also something that Mary er , mentioned yesterday . |
| 24 | Now what my constituents who are interested would like to know is , what actually does President Mitterrand want ? |
| 25 | And unfortunately unless can guarantee I mean what what what I would like to know is what they 're gon na charge the what they 're charging them now and what they 're gon na charge them . |
| 26 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 27 | What you do n't seem to know is that I 'm working for Query and not for you . |
| 28 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 29 | But what I 'd dearly love to know is what on earth made him so suspicious of me ? |