Example sentences of "know [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTUALLY STEVE Albini is someone you should know everything about , if only for Big Black , the Chicago-based hellcore punk terror band he formed in 1981 who had a parallel career of equal importance with the likes of Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth , whose best records managed to combine an obsession with the eternally disgustingness of life with a guitar noise beyond punk , metal and , indeed , language . |
| 2 | The strength of this method is that managers give their views on their peers — in other words , on firms they should know something about . |
| 3 | Hair is one of the things I do know something about . |
| 4 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 5 | Teachers and teaching are subjects that most people claim to know something about , based on their own school experience . |
| 6 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 7 | ‘ We were offered a gig at a festival in Denmark , which we did n't know anything about , turned up with the gear , and we were on after BB King , and before Robert Cray , plus Bob Dylan was on later on — definitely not the worst billing we 've ever been on . |
| 8 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 9 | So much is going on that you do n't know anything about — ’ |
| 10 | The scepticism follows because if we are confined in experience to the contents of our own minds alone , it would seem to be impossible that we should ever come to know anything about — or even come intelligibly to think about — things outside our own minds . |
| 11 | It can be hard if they are all in a group talking about people or things you know nothing about . |
| 12 | I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you . |
| 13 | Oh well , there 's no harm done in this case , only you really must be more chary of giving invitations to people we know nothing about . ’ |
| 14 | If you are tempted in the direction of a fish you know nothing about , resist the impulse to buy it , until you know something about its requirements . |
| 15 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 16 | ‘ Because we are playing with mysterious forces , my child , that we know nothing about . |
| 17 | She and I are going to clean Moor House from top to bottom , and make all the Christmas preparations that you know nothing about , being only a man . |
| 18 | ‘ I understand only that you intend to meddle in things you know nothing about , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework . |
| 20 | And number three ; you 've signed your way into a deal you know nothing about and which has almost certainly sold you up the river . |
| 21 | I belong to a family I know nothing about and I do n't feel secure or grounded any longer . |
| 22 | Of course there could be plenty of others I know nothing about . ’ |
| 23 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 24 | Go and find Donal , Ellie , she told herself sternly , instead of mooning over a man you know nothing about and probably would n't like if you did . |
| 25 | Something in his private life we know nothing about . ’ |
| 26 | But the main identity that people know something about is the culture . ’ |
| 27 | In almost every society we know something about , except perhaps the very simplest , there are individuals who specialize in music or who are regarded as more skilled ; in this respect , notation brings about not a total change but an added stimulus , and even without it , there can develop — as in blues or in British ‘ folk ’ traditions — an idea of particular songs being attached in some way to individuals : ‘ that 's X 's song ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps one can assume , therefore , that it is a subject few people know anything about . |
| 29 | But there 's an angle to all this I do n't believe you know anything about . |
| 30 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |