Example sentences of "to know things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must be wonderful to know things like that . ’ |
| 2 | I want to know things , ’ said Gay . |
| 3 | Why is it that we should want to know things that are , in the broad scheme , totally irrelevant ? |
| 4 | I do n't think humans want to know things that disturb them . ’ |
| 5 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 6 | Arlott , someone said once , seemed to know things he had no right to know . |
| 7 | One would need to know things — technical things — about speech , about why and how rhythm worked , about selection of nouns and word order to explain how he could state with finality — so that the words for it were his words — simple truths . |
| 8 | Governments are paid to know things like that . |
| 9 | He wondered how many of those around him were there for what he would call the right reason : the feeling that it was simple , playful fun to know things , an eager delight at the discovery that each piece of learning was a key to greater complexities of understanding . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the skill you 've got that really counts — the ability not to know things , or to know them without knowing that you know them . |
| 11 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 12 | You 're inclined to know things need to be done , to say ‘ Oh they 're alright , it 's not that bad , there are other things I must look at ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ — and I need to know things , if you loved Maria Luisa and still do … you do , do n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | Does er we need to know things like that and if you |