Example sentences of "[prep] knowing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never again had he thought the love of woman could touch his heart , not after the pain of knowing Tatiana was lost to him for ever . |
| 2 | " Only twenty-five quid , and that was on account of knowing Frank who used to work there . " |
| 3 | But Cunningham at least has the benefit of knowing New Zealand conditions . |
| 4 | The joy of knowing forgiveness |
| 5 | This part of the judge 's ruling is important because studies of passive smoking are beset with problems such as establishing a control and of knowing exposure levels . |
| 6 | We feel drawn to distinguish two ways of knowing things , an inward way and an outward way . |
| 7 | Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all . |
| 8 | One line of epistemological inquiry leads Habermas to explore the developed forms of knowledge in a way that locates them in terms of his phenomenological grounding of knowing subjects . |
| 9 | Gatting 's Faisalabad outburst is interpreted with a certain amount of knowing understanding , but Lillee , the Chappells , Lloyd , Holding , Croft , Richards , Greig and Miandad join him and many others in a category which should be cringeing when thinking back on some of its unsavoury behaviour . |
| 10 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 11 | Paul himself after decades of knowing Christ could still say that he had not attained the purpose for which Christ laid hold of him ; he was still following on ( Phil . |
| 12 | She closed her eyes as the pain of knowing rose and twisted inside . |
| 13 | After all these years of knowing Lucy , too ! |
| 14 | Friendly and approachable , he makes a point of knowing people individually whenever he can . |
| 15 | For just one fleeting moment , Robbie visualised a long warm sultry afternoon in her cabin or on Water Gypsy 's deck , with the subtle torture of knowing Fen was close at hand but totally unavailable . |
| 16 | Despite a large helping of hokum , Warlock ( 15 Medusa 18 Oct ) makes the supernatural transition from 1691 to 1988 fairly successfully and with a touch or two of knowing humour . |
| 17 | Like knowing Dempsey would have given |
| 18 | It 's like knowing things without knowing you know them . ’ |
| 19 | The Moscow cinema-goers watching this sequence from Eldar Riazanov 's A Station for Two broke into knowing laughter . |
| 20 | Extremely comfortable with convenient parking and the clubhouse bar-lounge and dining room only yards away , it 's a great favourite with knowing golfers . |
| 21 | When I began to be seen around camp with a new face , I was subjected to a lot of nudging and winking from those who did n't know the facts , and people came up to me with knowing smiles on their faces , saying , ‘ I see you 've got a new boyfriend ! |
| 22 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 23 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 24 | can be used by individuals or by groups who want to grow in knowing Jesus . |
| 25 | We are excited as a group in knowing God has called us to India but we realise how much we need Him in order for us to be effective . |
| 26 | Apart from knowing facts such as " oranges contain vitamin C " and liver contains iron " , hardly anyone had a clue as to what actually constitutes a sound balanced diet or even how much of each nutrient is required each day for their body size , or anyone else 's body size for that matter . |
| 27 | This means that assurance of faith comes directly from knowing God and only indirectly from understanding doubt . |
| 28 | I had no religion for a start , though I had developed respect for the Church through knowing Monsignor . |
| 29 | The thing is I knew there was Meg Ryan in the film and I thought I 've seen that actor cos I 'm , I 'm always on about knowing faces and names and stuff |
| 30 | ‘ Education is n't about knowing things but about how you feel about yourself . |