Example sentences of "knows [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comparison has fazed her , as she only knows about Lee Krasner as the widow of Jackson Pollock ; so the library visit is intended to check out reproductions of Lee Krasner 's work , to see if she has to concede that her friend may be right . |
| 2 | Whether you go it alone , ask the computer shop expert or persuade a friend who knows about computers to help you , it is essential to set up a regular data back-up system . |
| 3 | It will be necessary for you to seek help and advice from someone who knows about building and plans . |
| 4 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |
| 5 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 6 | Often these women , sometimes as young as seventeen or eighteen , suffer alone , no one except their husbands knows about them , or cares . |
| 7 | ‘ She knows about ERS-2 and is enthusiastic about it , ’ says one . |
| 8 | The world knows about just one , when , with nerveless panache , he cut down Viv Richards in most merciless swagger to win England the quarter-final of the last World Cup in India — with the daring of , it looked at the time , a schoolboy 's lob . |
| 9 | Garner knows about the challenge of performance art . |
| 10 | ‘ He knows about Bella 's money ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 12 | Most people feel that the church ‘ knows about death ’ , and that someone is n't really treated with proper respect and dignity at the time of their funeral unless the church is present . |
| 13 | So everyone knows about that ? ’ |
| 14 | I shall tell Mr Harker about this when I next see him and I shall make sure that Mr Thacker knows about it first thing tomorrow ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I gave the caller the name of a vet who knows about reptiles and suggested joining the British Chelonia Group for owners . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The best way to fight this appalling illness is to make sure everybody knows about Aids and how it can be fought . |
| 17 | She knows about misogynistic satire : |
| 18 | Tell me something that no one else knows about him . |
| 19 | Only one other person over here knows about it . |
| 20 | ‘ I reckon all Thrush Green knows about them tubes of yours . |
| 21 | Everyone knows about you if you win it . ’ |
| 22 | The man who had opened the door looked at the two men seated at the table and said , ‘ This dame here says she knows about wor Robbie ; she says he 's in hospital . |
| 23 | ‘ He knows about his own at any road . ’ |
| 24 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 25 | Silence : he knows about that ; |
| 26 | ‘ If Mo sneezes the whole of France knows about it , ’ he boasted . |
| 27 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 28 | Most of them were simply informative , one or two pitying ( everybody knows about the phenomenon and where have you been since 1605 , when Francis Bacon discovered the flashes ? ) and a few offering the hospitality of the nearest dark cupboard . |
| 29 | J. Sainsbury 's community investment manager , Eric Nicholls , knows about enlightened self-interest . |
| 30 | He only knows about money , Arts Council grants , stuffy councillors going on about ‘ bums on seats ’ . ’ |