Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
2 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
3 ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
4 Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
5 Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’
6 Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale .
7 She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney .
8 All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily .
9 ‘ We have reason to believe that you recently broke into Taigh na Tuir , the house belonging to Mr Hamilton here , and that you know something of the whereabouts of two valuable guns . ’
10 Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer .
11 getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case .
12 Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes .
13 His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it .
14 He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank .
15 Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England .
16 Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs .
17 If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys .
18 It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations .
19 But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse .
20 ‘ But I do deny it and you know nothing of the sort ! ’
21 He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out .
22 I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines .
23 When the passengers are cleaned up see if you can get this young lady , Irene Charial , alone and find out if she knows anything about the layout of the engine-room .
24 If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties .
25 If you know anything about the history of art , you 'll know that the real process of evaluation goes on after things have stopped .
26 Erm , er , if you , if you know anything about the kind of thing that actually goes on er , it 's nothing like the it 's supposed to be .
27 And I would like to ask and if you know anything about the the topography of Harrogate , the second er most attractive feature of this town after the Nidd Gorge is in fact .
28 Erm , the other thing is , if you know anything about the subject , which most amanuensists should do , you actually start filling in the gaps .
29 If you know anything about the robbery , please help us . ’
30 And they know nothing about the flat , of course . ’
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