Example sentences of "all we know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world .
2 Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ .
3 hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye
4 All we know about As , for example , is that they have relation to R to Bs , relation R' to Cs , relation R'' to Ds , etc ; and similarly for our understanding of Bs , Cs and Ds , and the variety of Rs .
5 Moreover , for all we know about the nature of thought , it might be possible , it might even be necessary , that the substances whose succession could continue a personal consciousness are material , not immaterial at all .
6 But we can not be certain : all we know about Julian is what she tells us herself in her book .
7 I do n't suppose the three are incompatible but that 's all we know about him .
8 Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom .
9 This new book shows how good manners held nineteenth century society together … but with all we know about what was really going on , can the Victorians really have got it right …
10 Cullam 's a damned liar and all we know of McCloy rests on his word alone .
11 All we know of Henry Hanna comes from Leland , and he never mentions Hanna teaching anywhere or acquiring any eminence , and there is no medieval evidence for his school .
12 All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire .
13 To them also , and particularly to Du Caurroy , we owe almost all we know of French instrumental ensemble music of the period .
14 He never came back — that 's all we know at present . ’
15 We do not know what was paid in cash and what was received in cash by the Post Office ; all we know in this regard is the opening and closing cash figure .
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