Example sentences of "to know from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of your technical tutors will be seeing everything you do , and deriving what they need to know from it ; they do n't want to find you confused by criticism from senior students which might not be helpful to you at this point . |
| 2 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |
| 4 | Better surely to embrace it in the company of those one has loved , and as one slips away , to know from their tears how much they have loved one too . |
| 5 | The only thing we want to know from you is where the stuff we found at Scano 's came from . ’ |
| 6 | Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers . |
| 7 | Since this is exceptional fate for most of them , we are never likely to know from fossil evidence anything approaching the complete range of land creatures that has existed in the past . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me what you want to know from me and I 'll see if I can oblige , ’ he says , after another pause slashed and stabbed by the insect life . |
| 9 | It was not possible to know from the data available whether this was the defendants ' choice or magistrates declining to try them . |
| 10 | we want to know from you , when only fish and chips will do for you . |
| 11 | You get to know from there . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's what I need to know from you , miss . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd just like to know from what sort of position you assumed the right to do so , Mr Scott . |
| 14 | Is not the problem for my hon. Friend that there are so many diverse views on nutritional supplements that it is hard to know from which set of experts one should take advice ? |
| 15 | I think part of the problem with the station youth centre , surely is that , we do n't seem to know from one year to another , what the future 's gon na be , other , you know , there does n't seem to be any forward planning whatsoever . |
| 16 | But this particular case Mr Deputy Speaker what we want to know from the minister is on these new boundaries what do we actually have to do ? |
| 17 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 18 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 19 | He would like to know from you how you came to fall into my hands . |
| 20 | Cos the police will want to know from when Simon sold the bike to this other kiddie who had the accident . |
| 21 | What questions do you want to know from customers about , what d' ya wan na know about them ? |