Example sentences of "know what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 2 | You ca n't imagine what it 's like not to know what it is to meet an attractive person who 's also attracted to you , can you ? |
| 3 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 4 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 5 | ‘ And the consultant wanted to know what she 'd had to eat , of course … ’ |
| 6 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 7 | Also it was hard to know what to say to Anne — that 's my wife — when she asked each evening ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 8 | She wanted to hear interviews with other survivors and to know what the emergency services had to say — the fire fighters who rushed to the scene , the doctors who performed the operations . |
| 9 | ‘ I find it hard to know what to say to people , ’ Colin said straightaway . |
| 10 | If you go into a pub today and buy a pint of beer , a coke , a low alcohol lager and a packet of crisps , you have a right to know what is in all those products except the beer . |
| 11 | ‘ A more health conscious consumer wants to know what he is drinking . ’ |
| 12 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 13 | She does n't want to know what he 's like . |
| 14 | Similarly , to look at our activity in the self-reflective consciousness provided by ‘ theory ’ can be salutary ; it is a good thing to know what we are doing , and , if possible , why . |
| 15 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 16 | Neither Mr Tallon nor the families of the crash victims claim to know what occurred . |
| 17 | Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making . |
| 18 | We are investing millions in these technologies and we want to know what are the rules of the game before we take the risk of bringing a product to the marketplace . ’ |
| 19 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 20 | ‘ Funnily enough , we could detect how the readership was developing from book signings : initially it was the children who came ; then mothers , mumbling that their children were at school , and then the fathers saying , ‘ I want to know what my children are reading ’ ; and finally , the parents on their own , no longer needing childish excuses . ’ |
| 21 | He wanted to know what are the experiences and emotions of religious people . |
| 22 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 23 | The trick here is to know what you want to say and make sure that you say it . |
| 24 | They do n't necessarily need to know what management is , they can learn all that . |
| 25 | As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing . |
| 26 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 27 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |
| 28 | The opportunity this gives an incumbent to take a broad view is useful if he or she has the resources to know what is going on . |
| 29 | And if you really want to know what I think , it 's that you Cretaceous people are insanely arrogant . |
| 30 | You 've got to know what your rivals are doing . |