Example sentences of "was know " in BNC.
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| 1 | To know oneself was to know that order . |
| 2 | And who was to know what went on in anyone else 's family ? |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 4 | On the train , however , it was possible to try to catch up on what there was to know about Christabel LaMotte . |
| 5 | And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it . |
| 6 | Constable was a miller 's son , and probably knew all there was to know about mills such as Flatford . |
| 7 | He had a desire for strong and lasting friendship , but he judged his friends severely , expecting them to be as eager as he was to know , see and feel everything . |
| 8 | The nineteenth century saw the most dramatic growth in population the town was to know . |
| 9 | Johnson ( 1972 ) labelled this gradual ironing out of local characteristics the ‘ nationalization ’ of local politics , and this process was reflected in the confident claim of the political pundits that ‘ to know the swing in Cornwall was to know , within a percentage or two , the swing in the Highlands ’ ( Crewe , 1985 , p. 103 ) . |
| 10 | Maggie Byrne was a woman with plenty of love to give , and the best stimulus of all was to know that she was needed . |
| 11 | Most important of all was to know the Catechism , and they had to repeat it over and over until it could be said without faltering . |
| 12 | His newborn son 's face he could still recall vividly and sometimes did in his dreams , that white unsullied look of sweet knowledgeable contentment , as if , in a brief moment of life , he had seen and known all there was to know , seen it and rejected it . |
| 13 | ( know thine enemy ) I wanted to know everything there was to know about lymphoma , but I decided to save the questions — and the wit — for my own doctor who has an excellent sense of humour . |
| 14 | But at that time she herself had been determined to find out all there was to know . |
| 15 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 16 | The problem for the student , which residential workers may also face , was to know how to shift this embryonic relationship into a form which was less disturbing to both . |
| 17 | The great problem for any navigator was to know where his ship was : it was relatively easy to determine the latitude , which measures distance north or south of the equator , but it was much harder to find the longitude , or distance east or west of a fixed meridian — a line from pole to pole running through all the points at which the sun is at its highest at the same moment . |
| 18 | The problem was to know where to stop . |
| 19 | She nodded , thinking that if only one person was to know in 43 , nevertheless in this house surely several must ? |
| 20 | Part of it was nerves and excitement , he knew , but at this stage he knew nearly everything there was to know about the girl . |
| 21 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 22 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 23 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 24 | How she was to know , how could she ever have known ? |
| 25 | Now I knew myself to be bad in a bad world , a vessel of poison afloat in a sea of poison , and I thought that this was all there was to know . |
| 26 | Tell me everything , ’ she saw his eyes soften and knew that he would surely tell her all there was to know . |
| 27 | It was all very well for Connie to say , as she sometimes did , that Scarlet 's therapist might know all there was to know about psychoanalysis but clearly knew sod-all about human nature . |
| 28 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 29 | What was useful was to know that you were being taken to him . ’ |
| 30 | Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know . |