Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could get the address or the telephone number of the hotel she could warn her twin that Roman knew where she and Garry were . |
| 2 | ‘ The theory we all had was that Richard knew very well that women worked twice as hard for half the price , ’ as one girl put it . |
| 3 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 4 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 5 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 6 | His friends , however , were familiar with his habits , so Mahmoud knew where to find him . |
| 7 | Also from Booth 's conversation with Dicke it can be concluded that Dicke knew long before World War II that wheat products contained the offending agent ; ‘ It was a young mother 's statement of her coeliac child 's rash improving rapidly if she removed bread from the diet , that alerted his interest , when he was a paediatrician in The Hague in 1936 . ’ |
| 8 | Typically , neither Frank nor Jack knew too much about the prostate gland , nor that it could be affected by disease , until it happened to them . |
| 9 | Margaret Thatcher 's strength was that people knew exactly where she stood ; Kinnock 's weakness , admitted ( privately ) even by his friends , was that nobody was sure of his position on any issue . |
| 10 | In the nineteenth century , when the only particle energies that people knew how to use were the low energies of a few electron volts generated by chemical reactions such as burning , it was thought that atoms were the smallest unit . |
| 11 | There was something about the firm set of her body that Jay knew instinctively : she was a survivor . |
| 12 | Neither Ellie nor Patsy knew where to look , because the woman was still in her dressing gown . |
| 13 | They excluded parents , often on the grounds that teachers knew best . |
| 14 | Marenches thought that Carter knew absolutely nothing about the Middle East . |
| 15 | Oh yeah there was lots of foreigners , Americans and foreign people there all with maps out on the tables , trying to find their way round York , which I knew that Stuart knew so it was n't too bad for us , but there 's loads of people , you know thought how do we get to this from here and well it 's certainly a a an experience . |
| 16 | These were the trends of mail order sales , the percentage and identity of the returns , the sources of manufacture , market research results , plans for mail order catalogues in the future and that Harris knew intimately the chairman of the manufacturers . |
| 17 | And the spoil was so great that there was no end to the riches , in gold and in silver , and in horses and arms , so that men knew not what to leave and what to take . |
| 18 | There was only one bus every two hours to and from Linby , so that Angela knew exactly what time Cheryl would get back . |
| 19 | ‘ From these organisations have come community leaders who often were never involved in anything prior to this experience , people who too often believed that others knew better and could make better decisions . |
| 20 | He had n't realised that Dad knew so many people . |
| 21 | He met poets like Ungharetti and Montale , and had an audience with Pope Pius XII — the Pontiff spoke to him on the theme of poetry and religion , although Eliot knew quite enough about that subject already . |
| 22 | All four works present the same sort of world — the teeming , overgrown , majestic Amazonian rainforest that Villa-Lobos knew very well . |
| 23 | Obviously it was someone that Luke knew very well . |
| 24 | What made Nate and the executive committee think that guys like Klepner and Mueller knew more about the European components ’ business than the Europeans ? |
| 25 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 26 | At least she and Dionne knew how precious they were to each other . |
| 27 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 28 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 29 | Now she knew where Lucy lived and Lucy knew how she felt . |
| 30 | He looked fed up and Ruth knew why . |