Example sentences of "[verb] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best ? |
| 2 | But all around him , voices are clamouring to know why it should be Indians who have all the luck . |
| 3 | and everybody was clamouring to know how much they were going to get and er we were always trying to head them off by saying that er , theirs was next on the list and er |
| 4 | I just intend to know your every move . ’ |
| 5 | It feels as though my whole world is collapsing about my ears — and I intend to know why ! ’ |
| 6 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 7 | As they do so we tend to know fewer of the people we see in them . |
| 8 | I mean did people tend to know everyone , know each other 's name |
| 9 | In primary schools for example , whilst the girls tend to know the names of everyone in the class , the boys know the names of the boys only . |
| 10 | Such places tend to know their customers . ’ |
| 11 | I agree about the idiot bit … but on the whole people who have degrees at least tend to know if they are being completely dense , so would not advertise their problems with ATM 's . |
| 12 | meeting other people in similar circumstances and no matter how much you tend to know , you 'll learn and feed off each other |
| 13 | We tend to know each other pretty well , and to share a lot of things — goals , objectives , commitments . |
| 14 | Mrs Coleridge has observed the workings of my face , while I have been writing ; and is intreating to know what is the matter — I dread to shew her your Letter — I dread it . |
| 15 | Peter was the test pilot used to be testing the Harvards over Walsall , and the engines used to make noises like angry wasps which was Walsall people became to know very well . |
| 16 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 17 | Assured by Helen that their new way of making love brought no ill effects for her ( ‘ Happy and bountiful Helen ’ ) he wishes her to understand his satisfaction away from her : ‘ You would laugh to know what my amusements are ! — mere jests of the slightest character ; rough simple ways ; and very little thought . |
| 18 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 19 | Shall I to him make know as yet my change and give him to partake full happiness with me ? |
| 20 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 21 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 22 | Goodman tried to find out by demanding to know how many refugee children had been baptised since they had arrived in this country . |
| 23 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 24 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |
| 25 | Some will be knocking on my door and demanding to know what 's going on . |
| 26 | Some called for myself , demanding to know why I was not present . ’ |
| 27 | And we 'll do that by constantly demanding to know that Ashi and Sousan are alive . |
| 28 | Freddy Vasquez of the opposition party , the Gibraltar Social Democrats , is demanding to know the exact cost and who will pay . |
| 29 | When the railway workers slid the door open and saw him , they shouted at him , demanding to know who he was . |
| 30 | We are demanding to know whether they can function as independent variables in the explanations of events and states of affairs , or whether they are always dependent ones . |