Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [pron] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers . |
| 2 | Even so , he had learned a lot , keeping what he knew from Spatz and his cronies . |
| 3 | Secondly , we summarise what we know about managers ' use of external information in general ; there is an overwhelming preference for informal rather than formal information sources . |
| 4 | Mrs Barnes , returned to her cottage , amazingly kept her silence for twelve years , only revealing what she knew to a local magistrate , Anthony Bridges in 1587 . |
| 5 | Greater coherence can be effected in the curriculum through a clear understanding of what is intended and how students may demonstrate what they know , understand and can do . |
| 6 | These same questions have remained close to the heart of theological debate ever since : How do we know what we know , and how can we be sure that we really know it ? and , What is the importance of the history recorded in the Bible for Christian faith ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but when he gave those orders , he did n't know what we know — about something stopping you from going in . |
| 8 | Cos I did n't know what you know our mum got her a couple of games . |
| 9 | You do n't know what I know . |
| 10 | but you do n't know what I know |
| 11 | Theodora reviewed what she knew about the Society of St Sylvester . |
| 12 | High up on a ledge above a window , she found what she knew Billy Gorman would never give her : the keys to the gun room at Riverstown . |
| 13 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 14 | This variation might either be because these forms are tied in some way to a particular kind of context and so are not freely transferable , or because the second context imposes inhibiting conditions which prevent learners from accessing and applying what they know . |
| 15 | You 'll not be denying what everybody knows for certain ? " |
| 16 | This is an overdraft facility and one of the most flexible and convenient ways of balancing short term overspending which you know you can put right as soon as you 're next paid or , at the worst , within the next few months . |
| 17 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 18 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 19 | Father , ’ he said , showing the hand that had soiled his brow , ‘ I speak what I know , what was plain even in the pitch dark . |
| 20 | In an attempt to eliminate what we know is stupid , we are often forced into a bureaucratic game through which we hope to define our expectations and the rules of the game so that emotions will be controlled and rationality will triumph . |
| 21 | Sampras , meanwhile , was planning to talk with Tom 's twin brother , Tim , who has been working with Eliot Teltscher and , although nothing had been settled at the time of writing , Andrew Agassi was looking for a coach who could help him improve what he knows remains a fundamental weakness in his game — his serve . |
| 22 | Theodora tried to remember what she knew of the geography of the place . |
| 23 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 24 | For we can not feel what we know we ought to feel — that ‘ the masses , are ‘ just folks ’ . |
| 25 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 26 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 27 | And not I should n't be here I really do n't know what I should be saying I really have n't got as much knowledge as everybody else that does n't matter , if you 're in a group it does n't matter what you know and what you do n't know there 's still things going on within that group that you can contribute |
| 28 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 29 | Other forms of life on earth today seem much more closely to resemble what one knows , based on the fossil record , to have been their evolutionary ancestors of many million years past . |
| 30 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |