Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The story demonstrates the urgent need for similar studies to be undertaken in other parts of the world to determine the status of the many other dolphin species about which we know so little . |
| 32 | For instance , sea slugs , a type of mollusc , live in the tidal zones around our coasts and most species are more brightly coloured than the equivalent land slugs which we know so well . |
| 33 | Which we knew anyway because , and here is perhaps the strongest thrust of Lecercle 's book for most of us , there 's no accounting for poetry . |
| 34 | When General Ayub Khan said , ‘ Martial Law is now imposed , ’ both cousin Zafar and I understood that his voice — that voice filled with power and decision and the rich timbre of my aunt 's finest cooking — was speaking a thing for which we knew only one word : treason . |
| 35 | As an indirect result of this association 's stormy history , Marx came across socialist revolutionaries from parts of the world about which he know relatively little . |
| 36 | Sabraxis had given him a schedule to work through , most of which he knew already as it was based upon traditional pieces . |
| 37 | He paused , detecting in his voice the first trace of that reedy mixture of sarcasm and pomposity which he knew occasionally affected him and to which he was morbidly sensitive . |
| 38 | Joe felt a heat seeping up through his body , finally coming to rest in his face , which he knew now had turned scarlet . |
| 39 | But now the gangling figure had been smoothed and tailored by success , he carried his height with easy assurance and the grey eyes — which he knew so well how to use — held a basic wariness . |
| 40 | He often found his thoughts , unfortunately , turning to Hannele 's face and body , and to the economies and peoples of Scandinavia , both of which he knew quite intimately . |
| 41 | Mr Kaplan 's best chapters are those on Romania and Greece , which he knows well . |
| 42 | How does the Secretary of State square his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian ( Mr. Eadie ) that provider units are in balance with the evidence from the document , which he knows well , that 86 hospitals are in deficit ? |
| 43 | I have an excellent TEC , the South and East Cheshire TEC , which he knows well . |
| 44 | Like a foreigner or a man out of his social class , he [ the Rationalist ] is bewildered by a tradition and habit of behaviour of which he knows only the surface ; a butler or an observant house-maid has the advantage of him . |
| 45 | As that applies also to the subject of mining , I shall give that advice to the hon. Member for Gordon , who spoke on a subject about which he knows very little — and it showed . |
| 46 | I hope Chairman that er David will listen to the arguments on this because like other members of his group he throws out closure of elderly persons homes , y'know we 've got ta do it , we 've got ta do it something about which he knows absolutely nothing and about which he 's completely wrong . |
| 47 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |
| 48 | It was a case of being 24 and not knowing what I know now . ’ |
| 49 | Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job . |
| 50 | ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool . |
| 51 | ‘ It 's a case of what I know now … . |
| 52 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 53 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 54 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 55 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 56 | Do you imagine that I could forgive and forget , knowing what I know now , or that any of you could meet my eye , knowing what you do ? |
| 57 | I went mad , he said well accidents happen , I said not with my fucking dad they do n't not to my dad I said I 'll tell you what Mr if I 'd have known then what I know now I would n't even let you operate , I would n't Joy I would have said leave him alone , I wished he 'd have died when the |
| 58 | That 's what he said , if I 'd known what I know now , he said I would n't of paid it ! |
| 59 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I know so far . |
| 60 | When my mother , in a state of total embarrassment , attempted to enlighten me , I had to help her out by telling her what I knew already . |