Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not enough to get my name known in those circles , I would n't have thought . ’ |
| 2 | My master knew about my past : the abbey , you see , before fat Henry intervened , had a sanctuary where fugitives from the law sheltered from bailiffs and sheriffs ' men . |
| 3 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
| 4 | In addition , about 36 fragments of metallic nickel-iron meteorites have been collected , one of which contains minute diamonds , and is the second of its kind known in the world . |
| 5 | Pook 's stables were invisible from here but were making their presence known by other means . |
| 6 | It is also easy to see the patches of dark nebulosity which are not illuminated by any convenient stars , and make their presence known by blotting out the light of objects beyond . |
| 7 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |
| 8 | The problem was making her presence known to any search party . |
| 9 | He hoped she was n't proposing to make her presence known to the Twenty-fourthers . |
| 10 | A person who is tested at a STD clinic may also expressly say that they do not wish their GP to know about it , which may be important later if the GP is ever asked to write a medical report about that person . |
| 11 | The PMUG is making its presence known to users of the program through number of channels . |
| 12 | The Commando mortar team over in the orchard made its presence known by dispatching a single H.E . |
| 13 | Wine disposed of , they proceeded to the kitchen where the bean casserole was making its presence known by a savoury odour . |
| 14 | Company executives are expected to make their decision known by the end of the week . |
| 15 | They moved warily , scuttling forward , overlapping each other , black wraith-like phantoms moving as a single entity , its rhythm known to them as ‘ house-laundering ’ — engaging the enemy at close quarters . |
| 16 | Er who who the candidates have to er make their candidacy known to , who 's the returning officer and so |
| 17 | Now how will people who have just passed their test know about your scheme ? |
| 18 | On each different type of timber veneer used was a tablet , making the type and its origin known to the passengers . |
| 19 | ‘ What was Alain 's father like ? ’ she asked at last when her desire to know about Alain overcame her shyness . |
| 20 | The question that haunts unlucky punters is , " How much did their sharedealer know about impending catastrophe ? |
| 21 | He worked with the CNR , the Provisional Consultative Assembly , the political parties , and the resistance movements , but he continued to insist that he was accountable only to the French people , who would make their will known after liberation . |
| 22 | The electorate was steadily expanding during the course of the Stuart century , so that by Anne 's reign perhaps as many as one in four adult males had the right to vote , whilst the passage of the Triennial Act in 1694 meant that those who were enfranchised had the opportunity to make their voice known in frequently contested elections . |
| 23 | She reminded herself that the guilt , if there was any , belonged to Dana , but she could n't believe her twin knew about Berenice . |
| 24 | By the way , I 've let my landlady and her family know about you . ’ |
| 25 | She would then go into a secret hiding place that only her family knew about . |
| 26 | She explained that she wanted someone outside her family to know about them in case anything should happen to her before she would be able to raise the issue with someone with influence in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Michael Mashelle , regional agriculture and livestock development officer , says that although his department knows about the giant cassava , it has no funds for research . |
| 28 | ( It is not clear if this refers to his own experiment or to the fact that Jones had by then made his work known to them . ) |
| 29 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 30 | Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands . |