Example sentences of "[verb] know [adv] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should be able to take care of himself — and yet she wo n't even let him out of the house without demanding to know where he 's going , who he 'll be with and what time he 'll be back . " |
| 2 | The greatest human being I ever met , Bill Shankly , sent me a letter 20 years ago , after hearing I 'd written to Harold Wilson demanding to know why he had n't been honoured . |
| 3 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 4 | Leeds did n't want to know when he was a youngster . |
| 5 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 6 | ‘ I know that Ella and Dimity — everyone in fact — will want to know how he is and would like to call , but they do n't wish to intrude at a time like this . |
| 7 | I shall want to know how he knew when and from where that bomber was taking off . |
| 8 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 9 | You want to know why he 's coming . |
| 10 | They want to know why he was in Portugal . |
| 11 | And if he 's out — ’ she was reaching for the handkerchief in her apron pocket — ‘ I want to know where he is . |
| 12 | I want to know where he goes , who he meets … everything . " |
| 13 | I want to know where he goes . ’ |
| 14 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 15 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 16 | If an author says that a third of the present holders of dukedoms in Britain have been divorced we want to know how he found this out . |
| 17 | I want information , Millet , I want to know how he 's going to cope . |
| 18 | I want to know how he 's doing in general and where he needs a bit of encouragement . |
| 19 | His father , David Wilson , said : ‘ We want to know how he died . |
| 20 | ‘ And he wants to know why he 's doing all this research . |
| 21 | If the hon. Member for Copeland is complaining about the level of tax now , the country wants to know why he proposes to add considerably to it . |
| 22 | And he wants to know where he can buy them in Ipswich . |
| 23 | He was hatless , and passers-by looked curiously at this young man who seemed to know where he was going , yet strode absently . |
| 24 | And the Turk 's Head stayed shut with padlocks on the doors and the windows boarded up , and Uncle Titch went away and no one seemed to know where he 'd gone to , not even William 's grandad , and no one seemed to know whether he 'd taken his fairground with him or whether it was still there behind the shutters and the padlocked doors in the dark rooms with the bloodstains still on the walls and floors . |
| 25 | He never quite seemed to know where he was going , or why . |
| 26 | North himself seemed to know how he might go over , if not precisely the scale of it . |
| 27 | He describes an extraordinary incident when , after top police officers had left , other men involved in the torture spoke to him , wanting to know how he had resisted . |
| 28 | I 'd like to know where he gets it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No , but I 'd like to know where he is . ’ |
| 30 | I can understand soldiers being allowed to play with guns , but I would like to know where he got those handcuffs . ’ |