Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] know [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |
| 2 | It is difficult for them to know just how great are the gaps in your knowledge and the limitations on your competence , and so they will depend on you to make your own initial assessment . |
| 3 | We certainly know each other very well — well enough for me to know when he 's feeling himself and when he is not . |
| 4 | That 's why it seemed no bad idea for somebody to know where I was yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 5 | The PA 's international director Ian Taylor reported that the government through its Know How Fund for aid to eastern Europe had recently contributed £30,000 to the Senior Managers Attachment Programme ( SMAP ) . |
| 6 | Bruch contrasts this fortunate majority with both the anorexic and the obese person , neither of whom knows how to gauge the state of her own stomach or assess what is a reasonable requirement of food for her own bodily needs.9 The obese person can not recognise that her stomach is full , nor the anorexic that hers is empty . |
| 7 | I 've tried seventy-one different doctors all over the country but none of them know how to help . |
| 8 | Most of them know enough about their swings to make minor compensations and can work the ball around the course quite adequately since they can all revert to a ‘ bread and butter ’ swing , usually with ‘ bread and butter ’ results . |
| 9 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 10 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 11 | Each of the four was an experienced police frogman , and each of them knew exactly what he was looking for — knew indeed the exact dimensions of the object and the positioning of the three great ruby eyes once set into it . |
| 12 | When the fit was over none of them knew how to act . |
| 13 | There was a hesitation , as if neither of them knew how to start talking to the other . |
| 14 | None of them knew how to go on . |
| 15 | Two of them knew how to play already . |
| 16 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 17 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 18 | They argued ferociously about Ireland , although neither of them knew too much about it . |
| 19 | Each of them knows perfectly well that the strength of her position in the home lies in the physical dependence of her husband and children upon her and she is suspicious of anything that would tend to undermine this . |
| 20 | I was thinking of a little black cat gazing up at me with dim eyes ; Rozanov of I know not what — possibly Ulrike Meinhof . |
| 21 | ‘ And how well those temptress lips of yours know how to lie . ’ |
| 22 | more so than the front room or the well the front room 's good when you get a bit of you know when the you 've got the sun . |
| 23 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 24 | And they sort of you know where they are do n't |
| 25 | get mentioned somewhere along the line of , of you know maybe you know , I mean God knows how you would fund a |
| 26 | Some of you know Now way back a couple of weeks ago when we were doing the group seven the one that 's spelt F C L B R I A T. |
| 27 | The Nottinghamshire show is the 6th and 7th and as most of you know now we 're going to build the equivalent of Coronation Street on quite a large area spanning a hundred years of er of burglary , that that 's the theme . |
| 28 | ‘ You none of you know how he died in the workhouse and was buried in a pauper 's grave ? ’ |
| 29 | And I 'm , I 'm sure that was the reason , there , I mean there are all sorts of er accounts of you know how people poured onto the streets waving their bloody flags in nineteen fourteen and die in the trenches |
| 30 | The the tables are very erm old fashioned wooden ones and sort of you know how you get your legs under sort of well like a bottom lip . |