Example sentences of "know [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do I know instinctively that that does not mean that you are willing to admit you burn for me , cara ? ’ |
| 2 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 3 | Ordinary women seemed to know instinctively that from the hip down ( and especially from behind ) culottes produced an unflattering outline , the mini won hands down . |
| 4 | She turned on the charm to all she met and grinned at cameramen , seeming to know instinctively when the best pictures were being taken . |
| 5 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 6 | Since a large number of locations were needed for this study it was decided to use locations which none of the subjects were likely to know rather than stimuli filmed in the Cambridge area which would differ in the degree of previous familiarity subjects had with them . |
| 7 | ‘ And who could know better than you ? |
| 8 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 9 | ‘ None can know better than your lordship the importance of Berwick Castle , ’ Ramsay went on . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 11 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 12 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 13 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 14 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 15 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 16 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 18 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 19 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 20 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 21 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
| 22 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
| 23 | ‘ Well that 's the case anyway : whether it would stand up in court you 're the lawyer you 'd know better than I but we 're not talking about courts and proof just leaks and public opinion . |
| 24 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 25 | Filippo would know better than me if either of them have been here . ’ |
| 26 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 27 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
| 28 | The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further . |
| 29 | In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information . |
| 30 | One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities . |