Example sentences of "have know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But , ’ Jay teeters on the brink of a revelation , ‘ the A&R man does n't have to know about your music ; he has to know how the system works , how to get your material through the system .
2 ‘ When I opened the letter and saw the summons , ’ Jean says , ‘ I thought , ‘ Oh , the poor devil — I 'll have to just simply pay off the money owed , and then no-one will ever have to know about this ’ . ’
3 The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference .
4 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 .
5 You 'd have to know in advance .
6 ‘ They must have known as they sighted the enemy that there was no chance for them ’ , said Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , but they had no thought of surrender ’ .
7 Of course , she told herself , she should have known at once that he was n't Kettering .
8 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 .
9 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
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The Odiham Society knew of Clark , and could have known of his views on the education of farriers , before it received copies of Vial 's plan on 5 August 1790 .
13 The Magill reporter concluded that the County Council officials ‘ must have known of the existence of the tailings pond soon after it began ’ .
14 If the police could not prove that the accident was of such force and severity that the driver must have known of the accident , then the defence could put forward the saving in Harding v Price .
15 ‘ Only close pals would have known of visit ’
16 I 'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence .
17 Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations .
18 The farmer can not have known of ancient alignments , and his reconstruction did not accord with the circle 's original orientation on the southern moon .
19 Presumably Shakespeare researched his play in Holinshed 's histories — but how could he have known of the eeriness of atmosphere available all around here ?
20 The justices found that the appellant must have known of the possibility that a breach of the peace was a probable consequence of her conduct , and that she was not unwilling that this should come about .
21 Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents .
22 There was no [ overt ] Dionysiac worship among the Greeks at this time ; and though they must have known of the near-Eastern festivals , the savage excesses of those cults were totally alien to them , at least on a conscious level , and were rejected uncompromisingly .
23 How could the Prince have known of Lady Eleanor 's death so early ?
24 The SSR description should , where appropriate , restate any problems reported by the SPR to which it relates , since it is likely that the person who reported the original situation was not aware of the true cause , or may not have known of any related problems .
25 The buyer may have wanted the computer to expand his business and he will be able to claim the resulting loss in profits , provided the seller knew or should have known of this ; that is , it was in the reasonable contemplation of the parties .
26 His prohibition of the sale of Christians to the heathen , for example , was drawn from an English source , although he may have known of Henry II 's identical measure in Germany in 1006 .
27 This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin .
28 Gregory may well have known of these claims , and have thought of them as pagan .
29 Under Sched 2 , para ( c ) , a clause is more likely to be held reasonable if the party knew or should have known of it when he entered into the contract .
30 The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’
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