Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] know [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The worst teacher I ever knew was the chemistry teacher . |
| 2 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 3 | For all I knew , they were flying the plane that I now knew was never going to make it to Bangkok . |
| 4 | people I know and the only ones I really know are those that come in the shop . |
| 5 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 6 | There as you probably know are various groups who feel that they , ought to erm , they ought to take a stand because they felt that Port Meadow actually the character of Port Meadow was changing and ultimately the Council I think agreed with them , that something should be done and this was the action that was taken . |
| 7 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 8 | ‘ No one you now know was a stranger ? ’ |
| 9 | " Every now and again you meet someone you immediately know is out of the ordinary . |
| 10 | We have a , an unemployment rate officially of twelve thousand , probably the real figure as you well know is up probably sixteen thousand in a city of less than two hundred thousand . |
| 11 | Of their own volition , her hands tightened in his hair , forcing his head forwards , and she responded to his kiss with a passion she never knew was within her . |
| 12 | Yeah but it 's a lot in n it for a film that you never know is gon na |
| 13 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 14 | To increase out migration will selectively erm encourage those people least able to compete probably the the the the younger section , the seventeen to twenty ei twenty four year age group which we already know are there 's a net out migration flow . |
| 15 | The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us . |
| 16 | Natural selection , the blind , unconscious , automatic process which Darwin discovered , and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life , has no purpose in mind . |
| 17 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 18 | But on their return , Diana is already starting to look thin with evidence of what we now know was bulimia . |
| 19 | To many this might seem a dry and rather dusty concern ; but those who have watched the progress of AD can hardly fail to ask if the person they once knew is still somehow trapped within the body and mind of the sufferer . |
| 20 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 21 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 22 | What Durkheim did was transform or recontextualise the official statistics , which he well knew were less than satisfactory in many respects , produced by officials for administrative purposes , and relate them to his theoretical concerns . |
| 23 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 24 | Recently , he confesses , he has been plagued by a recurring dream in which all these Hollywood types he barely knows are asking to borrow his toothbrush . |
| 25 | Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing . |