Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to retrace their steps to pick it up again , while a second team discovered that neither a policeman nor the Council knew where the Local Authority parcels office was . |
| 2 | The man will swiftly think that the Duke knew all along . |
| 3 | What 's worried the Coulthard 's is that the woman knew so much about their family . |
| 4 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 5 | He was indeed notorious for scheduling numerous rehearsals even for pieces he and the orchestra knew backwards , but his repertoire was wider than commonly imagined , and there is some unsuspected treasure in his discography . |
| 6 | The houses on the road did n't have numbers ; they all had names , and the postman knew where everyone lived . |
| 7 | It took an enormous amount of discussion to persuade me that we had enough intrinsic skills to mount a successful oil operation , but those closer to the competition and the marketplace knew better than I their own relative abilities . |
| 8 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 9 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |