Example sentences of "was know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the train , however , it was possible to try to catch up on what there was to know about Christabel LaMotte . |
| 2 | And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it . |
| 3 | Constable was a miller 's son , and probably knew all there was to know about mills such as Flatford . |
| 4 | ( know thine enemy ) I wanted to know everything there was to know about lymphoma , but I decided to save the questions — and the wit — for my own doctor who has an excellent sense of humour . |
| 5 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 6 | Part of it was nerves and excitement , he knew , but at this stage he knew nearly everything there was to know about the girl . |
| 7 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 8 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 9 | It was all very well for Connie to say , as she sometimes did , that Scarlet 's therapist might know all there was to know about psychoanalysis but clearly knew sod-all about human nature . |
| 10 | Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already . |
| 11 | And , ’ she said confidingly , patting Meredith 's cold face , ‘ we almost despaired when he said you were determined to find out everything there was to know about your family . |
| 12 | Lowering his head , he captured her mouth , expertly learned all there was to know about Ellie Browne 's responses — all about how putty felt when it was thoroughly warmed . |
| 13 | She was the infinitely alluring , forever mysterious older woman who knew everything there was to know about love , sex , and romantic liaisons . |
| 14 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 15 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 16 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 17 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 18 | She nodded , thinking that if only one person was to know in 43 , nevertheless in this house surely several must ? |
| 19 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 20 | She says other prisoners used to chant ’ Baroness , ’ but eventually they accepted her and she was know as the Duchess . |
| 21 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 22 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 23 | November 1697 , will always be associated with Chiswick , although he was constantly referred to , in his day , as ‘ Mr. Hogarth of Leicester Fields ’ — the name by which Leicester Square was known at that time — as that was his business centre and where he worked before he married . |
| 24 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 25 | The Whitehall documents leaked by Mr Cook show arms embargo-breaking to Saddam was known at ministerial level . |
| 26 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 27 | Rates of remaining a never smoker in 1989 for the 2981 ( 98% ) for whom smoking status was known at this first follow up were 85% in the control group , 82% in the FSE group , 81% in the SAM group , and 84% in the FSE/SAM group . |
| 28 | Its eponym , the harpist Ludovico , is believed to have produces falsas ( chromatic ‘ wrong notes ’ ) by pressing a finger against a string to shorten its sounding length — King uses instead a type of double harp that was known at that time — and this device is still used by folk harpists in South America . |
| 29 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 30 | In 1911 Law was known — in so far as he was known at all in the parliamentary party — as a spirited debater . |