Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
6 | 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 ? ’ |
7 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
8 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
9 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
11 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
12 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
13 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations . |
20 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
21 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
22 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
23 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
24 | ‘ But I do deny it and you know nothing of the sort ! ’ |
25 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
26 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
27 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ If you know anything about the history of art , you 'll know that the real process of evaluation goes on after things have stopped . |