Example sentences of "[verb] know that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professionally , if I felt there was a risk I should want to know that I was clear so I was certain there was no danger of me passing anything on to a patient or a future partner . |
| 2 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 3 | I do n't want to know that he says . |
| 4 | She did n't want to feel this attraction , and did n't want to know that he felt it too . |
| 5 | They will want to know that you have a safe , warm place for children to play , and that your kitchen and toilet facilities are adequate . |
| 6 | You need to know what you 've got , not precisely the solicitor does n't want to know that you 've a house and three insurances and two bank accounts and a building society . |
| 7 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 8 | The farmers want to know that we are fighting the proposals . |
| 9 | but erm I said to her over there , I said er , well excuse me I said er da er er a doctor , I , I said took a urine test for me and I said I want to know that I , if he knew the results ? |
| 10 | I understand ; I mean , you want to know that someone is n't just making the whole thing up when they talk about a man being that special to them . |
| 11 | I want to know that someone out there cares for me , not that I 've got no one or nothing . |
| 12 | As with any evasion , the horse can not be expected to know that he is not supposed to do it . |
| 13 | Galadriel seems to know in advance that Aragorn will take the Paths of the Dead , Aragorn to know that he and Éomer will meet again , ‘ though all the hosts of Mordor should stand between ’ . |
| 14 | The child needs to know that he can win the heart of his parents , but also that such feelings can be handled safely . |
| 15 | He needs to know that he will be listened to and taken seriously . |
| 16 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 17 | Rarely has it ever been recorded that a fatality has occurred from snakebite during the festival ; the Cobras appear to know that they are being revered . |
| 18 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 19 | Since becoming the first Scot in 35 years to win the Amateur title at Carnoustie last year , Dundas has known that he would be playing in the US Masters at Augusta and Open Championship at Royal St George 's , and now he has received an invitation to the US Open , to be played at Baltusrol , New Jersey , on 17-20 June . |
| 20 | Your correspondent Alan Lovejoy , writing in the February issue about Met services , may be heartened to know that there is an alternative to the expensive , user-unfriendly service on offer from the Met Office . |
| 21 | With the conditional theory of knowledge , and the above explication of clauses 3 and 4 , you can be said to know that you are sitting reading because ( 3 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading you do not believe that you are , and ( 4 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you do believe that you are . |
| 22 | Strange dreams disturbed his mind : weird animals chased him down long dark valleys , but gradually he came to know that they were only nightmares . |
| 23 | Ken was disturbed to know that he was being watched during a live performance , even by a man who was providing an audience out of sheer admiration . |
| 24 | How did it feel to know that you were the instrument and the cause of something so enormously and comprehensively dreadful ? |
| 25 | But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey . |
| 26 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 27 | But even without looking he 'd known that her clothes — all her dresses and her coats and her cardigans and her shoes were no longer in her wardrobe or in the chests of drawers she shared with his father in their bedroom . |
| 28 | Mark : I suppose the point at which my public coming out started was 1976–7 , though I 'd known that I was gay from a much earlier age . |
| 29 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 30 | I have to admit that if I 'd known that I would n't have asked to have you seconded to Carlisle Flint … ’ |