Example sentences of "[conj] they know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither we , nor they knew just how flexible and responsive they 'd have to be . |
| 2 | ‘ With travel or any other service , they should satisfy themselves that they know exactly what they are buying . ’ |
| 3 | With travel or any other service , they should satisfy themselves that they know exactly what they are buying . ’ |
| 4 | If their opinion differs to mine , I believe that they know best . |
| 5 | They do not encourage verbal give and take , believing that the child should accept unquestioningly that they know best . |
| 6 | That loved my friend ; and that they know full well |
| 7 | They have established , to their mutual relief , that they know absolutely nobody in common . |
| 8 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 9 | When they say to you ‘ oh well , you know , surely you do n't mind a little bit of flirtation and so on ’ I think very often that 's an entirely mendacious reply , that they know perfectly well what you 're talking about when you talk about sexual harassment , and in the context of discussions in the SCR or over dinner , they simply do n't want to have to deal with it and so they will dismiss it by way of saying ‘ well , you know , I 'm only being chivalrous , or this is the way I was brought up ’ . |
| 10 | The ultimate decision will be taken by the court — and , do n't worry , I shall make very sure that they know precisely what type of person Janice really is . |
| 11 | And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want . |
| 12 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 14 | I have the sneaking suspicion , fuelled by the clothes my parents packed , that they knew anyway . |
| 15 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |
| 16 | In the latter situation subjects were given a cue prior to the stimulus presentation ( pre-cued condition ) so that they knew beforehand whether to report the inner or outer column or the letters printed in a particular colour . |
| 17 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 18 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 19 | account holders will receive statements of their accounts every three months , so they know exactly how fast their savings are growing . |
| 20 | Night Goblins find it necessary to occasionally descend into the chill depths in search of exotic funguses , so they know all too well what dangers await them . |
| 21 | And they knew full well that they did n't really need the three thousand apprentices but those large firms trained no no note my word , for the country 's needs , not the company 's needs ! |
| 22 | The knights of the eleventh century , not being socialised in the ‘ literate mentality ’ of these later historians , knew well enough that such institutions were not simply a ‘ neutral ’ bureaucracy guaranteeing the ‘ objectivity ’ of written documents , and they knew well enough , too , how these documents were untrustworthy . |
| 23 | And they knew also that she was allowed to sit quietly with a book during lessons and not pay attention to the teacher . |
| 24 | The men who inserted these phrases knew what they were doing , and they knew also that it was important not to overdo the subject of the primacy . |
| 25 | Their manpower requirements were planned in detail and they knew exactly when and for how long they needed additional workers . |
| 26 | And they knew perfectly well when the connections had been made . |
| 27 | And they knew then where the blood had come from . |
| 28 | He never gave an explanation and they knew better than to ask , but they guessed it would be a problem connected with his increasing consumption of drink . |
| 29 | And they know anyway do n't they ? |
| 30 | They know that , unless I am very fortunate , the only chance I 'll have to catch them is the moment in which they take the ransom , and they know equally well that you wo n't risk your daughter 's life by telling me where that 's going to happen . |