Example sentences of "i [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignorant me only knows of a Paris ‘ Conservatoire ’ , but I presume there must be such an august institution nearer to hand ( and foot ) . |
| 2 | I personally know of a foreign company planning to establish a factory and recruit a thousand staff in Britain . |
| 3 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 4 | I only know about my approach . |
| 5 | Though I only know about it from what men say . |
| 6 | I only know about the room . |
| 7 | In fact , I only know of one in the whole of the UK . ’ |
| 8 | They originally said they 'd be covering the works of 20 composers over the period 1984–2000 but , so far , I only know of the LPs ‘ George And James ’ ( Gershwin and Brown ) and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ ( Sousa and Hank Williams ) . |
| 9 | I know this I just know about about a sort of friend of ours is making money meanwhile in Germany . |
| 10 | ‘ The … the stuff that causes the heat in chillis ’ and I smile , because I just know from the way he phrased that that he knows the technical term but does n't want to appear too smart-alec ‘ is n't soluble in water , but it is soluble in fat . |
| 11 | Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money ! |
| 12 | ‘ I just saw the box of cigarettes lying there on the table , and everybody else smoking , and I just knew inside me with absolute certainty that I should smoke , too . |
| 13 | Besides , I already know about stramonium . |
| 14 | Rain said : ‘ Tim , it 's a good story but it 's not worth anything to me because I already know about it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I already know about it , my dear , as does most of the world . |
| 16 | Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you 've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about , that we 're tendering against . |
| 17 | As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup . |
| 18 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 19 | I once knew by heart a poem by the Russian , Fyodor Tyuchev entitled Vyesna ( Spring ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if there is it 's the first one I ever knew of . ’ |
| 21 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 22 | I forgot everything I ever knew about standing up for myself and , without argument , I slunk meekly into the night . |
| 23 | I want to forget all I ever knew about precious Miguelito . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 25 | I always know about you , because we are born under the same star . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I feel I know David reasonably well , but the others I hardly know at all . |
| 27 | By the time the gay movement started in 1970 the gay friends I had were people I had picked up or met through a pick-up ; I probably knew about half a dozen gay people intimately . |
| 28 | ‘ I also know about your computer . |
| 29 | I also know of several productive bream waters where the bream never show themselves at all until they are being brought to the landing net . |
| 30 | All I materially knew of the war was the thick squat block of the air-raid shelter at the end of the garden which as a child I took over as my own little house . |