Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 2 | One of the most bizarre examples of convergent evolution that I know concerns the so-called periodical cicadas . |
| 3 | And all the varieties of human kind that we know of do these things . |
| 4 | The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today . |
| 5 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 6 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 7 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |