Example sentences of "i [verb] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , what else did I want to know ? |
| 2 | Not only do I want to know the story but I want to know the whys and wherefores . |
| 3 | ‘ Why should I want to know where Michel is ? |
| 4 | Whichever method one used , the first and most important step was to formulate objectives , the ‘ what do I want to know , why , and what can I do with the result ? ’ guiding principles for research . |
| 5 | Did I want to know what it was ? |
| 6 | Well you know what I mean knew very well and nodded . |
| 7 | I do n't mean ‘ know it ’ in some vague sense , I mean know it , for good and certain . ’ |
| 8 | would appeal to children , I mean knowing how sophisticated things are today , it 's just a simple glove puppet and yet kids are just as interested in them |
| 9 | And I thought well it 's going to be awkward to get a piece of wood for that I mean knowing your dad with wood I know Anyhow I said er it 's just the right height for me |
| 10 | It feels as though my whole world is collapsing about my ears — and I intend to know why ! ’ |
| 11 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 12 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 13 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 14 | I got to know . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 16 | ‘ He was always acting the goat , that 's why I got to know him . |
| 17 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 18 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 19 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 20 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 21 | At first , she was my running idol and then , when I got to know her , I realised how nice she was as a person as well . |
| 22 | As Emerson 's father , Wilson Sr , is a journalist , I got to know him quite well in my early years in the sport . |
| 23 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 24 | I mean , shit , I got to know what he 's thinking , right ? |
| 25 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 26 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 27 | When I came over here I got to know about Kyrle Hall [ a Birmingham amateur club ] and went along there with my pumps and shorts and that was my introduction to boxing really . |
| 28 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 29 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 30 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |