Example sentences of "need know something [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’
2 One does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the word ‘ here ’ meaningfully .
3 Similarly , he seems to be suggesting , one does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the expression ‘ in me ’ meaningfully .
4 Now he had a farm to run he needed to know something of farm bookkeeping .
5 And all parents need to know something about them in order to help protect their children from danger , now or in the future .
6 Readers will work hard at a text if they need to know something about their favourite football player or team , if they want to know about their favourite singer or group , if they want information for a project that really interests them , or if they need information a make something or improve their performance in some way .
7 Before you can understand about AIDS , you need to know something about how the human body works to keep us healthy .
8 To build up a character you need to know something about that character , what sort of person that character is or what sort of animal that character is .
9 To explore these avenues we usually need to know something about how or why the document was created , and what the writer could reasonably have been expected to know .
10 So we want to get bright objects that we can see at great distances , but we also need to know something about what it is we 're looking at .
11 We need to know something of an animal 's mind .
12 Before we confront their beliefs we need to know something of their setting , but this will not take long to recount ; I shall adopt the anthropologist 's familiar if sometimes confusing practice of writing in the ‘ ethnographic present ’ tense .
13 Each of the catechists must be in touch with their own life experience , and in particular the helper catechists need to know something of the life history of their friends so that a real historical event can be shared when it comes to the time for each one to share parts of their personal story — for that is where God speaks to each one of us .
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