Example sentences of "know thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must be wonderful to know things like that . ’ |
| 2 | I want to know things , ’ said Gay . |
| 3 | Why is it that we should want to know things that are , in the broad scheme , totally irrelevant ? |
| 4 | I do n't think humans want to know things that disturb them . ’ |
| 5 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 6 | Arlott , someone said once , seemed to know things he had no right to know . |
| 7 | One would need to know things — technical things — about speech , about why and how rhythm worked , about selection of nouns and word order to explain how he could state with finality — so that the words for it were his words — simple truths . |
| 8 | Governments are paid to know things like that . |
| 9 | He wondered how many of those around him were there for what he would call the right reason : the feeling that it was simple , playful fun to know things , an eager delight at the discovery that each piece of learning was a key to greater complexities of understanding . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the skill you 've got that really counts — the ability not to know things , or to know them without knowing that you know them . |
| 11 | He did n't really strike her as a particularly nosy person , just wanting to know things for the hell of it . |
| 12 | You 're inclined to know things need to be done , to say ‘ Oh they 're alright , it 's not that bad , there are other things I must look at ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ — and I need to know things , if you loved Maria Luisa and still do … you do , do n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | Does er we need to know things like that and if you |
| 15 | Det Chief Insp Nick Biddiss said : ‘ People may still know things they have forgotten to mention and we hope this exercise will jog their memories . ’ |
| 16 | Firstly , a power ‘ on ’ light at the rear of the handle lets the user know things are warming up — this is a simple device which prevents the operator leaving the gun on . |
| 17 | ‘ It was strange how Gary would often know things he had not been told . |
| 18 | Well did I do n't know things are so open and you know , these days . |
| 19 | You do know things about my father , do n't you ? ’ she cried , waiting for his reply in an agony of suspense . |
| 20 | Luke would know things about these places that the guide-books considered too unimportant to print ; he would bring the ancient stones to life — as he had in Bruges . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know things were as bad as that . ’ |
| 22 | Now , we 're working on language , now , but because a question turns up every year on paper one , to do with education , we 're going to be considering education , and we 're going to consider education in the broadest possible way , and that is , how do we know things . |
| 23 | But I do n't , what if I do n't know things ? |
| 24 | But I do n't know thing is it 's a real hassle carrying it around is n't it ? |
| 25 | Marx simply assumes that how we know things is not a problem . |
| 26 | But some day — some day I 'll travel , and meet people , and know things , and then I shall write a true book — a book of experience . ’ |
| 27 | People only think they know things . |
| 28 | Once you know things , you 're a different person . |
| 29 | You know things like uppermost in people 's minds , I do n't know whether I suppose this question of fees might still be , I do n't know , it depends what the national executive say , but I mean I think it 's those issues and the fact we can respond quickly is , will be an advantage . |
| 30 | And that , er it was kind of and the garden was small cos we had it , a quite big garden and you know things like that , I think , and the travelling and everything I think got her down a bit , I know she sat down and had a cry , yeah . |