Example sentences of "[noun sg] to know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who had the privilege to know her wanted to remember her . |
| 2 | I did not want our enemy to know I was here , but I wanted to be near enough to make sure that you and Sir Henry were safe . |
| 3 | It 's a great help to know I can rely on you for such last minute needs ! |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no need to know it . |
| 5 | ‘ The experience we gained through High Island gave us the confidence to know we could successfully work with Tatham , ’ Broussard says . |
| 6 | This is a shot worth practising because it takes confidence to know you can hit this shot quite hard and the ball still might not pass the flag . |
| 7 | It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint . |
| 8 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 9 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 10 | He did n't give Lamarr a chance to know he was there . |
| 11 | She did n't even need to turn her head to know it was him . |
| 12 | But it gave a warm , satisfying feeling to know I had done something right . |
| 13 | It was a rather dreadful feeling to know you were alone inside a castle of giants . |
| 14 | I did n't want your father to know I was back , for fear he 'd want to hold me . ’ |
| 15 | Something , something in her friend 's tense attitude seemed to say that she did n't want her visitor to know she was expected elsewhere . |
| 16 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 17 | He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire . |
| 18 | I am well served as princes go , and I have wit to know it . |
| 19 | She said , ‘ If you have a secret you do n't want the world to know you must never tell it except to an enemy . |
| 20 | Lucille felt friendless in an enemy country , but then was relieved to see the Dowager Countess of Mauberges who , like so many other Belgian aristocracy , thought of herself as French and wanted the world to know it . |
| 21 | I believe it 's much better for an audience to know I 'm risking my neck rather than someone who looks like me . |
| 22 | The Order and Carlotta have cause to know it . |
| 23 | It would be quite a useful thing to know I think . |
| 24 | Some such open acceptance of our intellectual limitations would not be unrelated to Pyrrhonian ataraxia or peace of mind ; but although Locke does , indeed , conclude that the truth often outruns our ability to know it , he certainly does not accept that nothing can be known . |
| 25 | Though she thought , secretly , that it was a comfort to know it might not be true . |
| 26 | She did n't need to see his face to know it was Niall . |
| 27 | It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious . |
| 28 | She did n't need to see his face to know he had masked his reaction . |
| 29 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 30 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |