Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pers pn] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 2 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 3 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 4 | You can work to diagrams of patterns that you already know and like or try out new ones that may suit the fabric rather better . |
| 5 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 6 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 7 | In consequence , months of painful and arduous negotiations had been wasted , largely because of the ignorance or the Bourbon attitude of the Foreign Office who did not bother to find out something on the basis that they already knew every piece of human knowledge that is worth knowing . |
| 8 | And because the Crabb operation was unauthorised the Director General of MI6 could also honestly tell the inquiry that he too knew nothing about such a plan . |
| 9 | She had an awful suspicion that he already knew exactly what Anpetuwi meant , and had asked her to embarrass her . |
| 10 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 11 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 12 | I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience . |
| 13 | It helps to put things that you already knew back in focus |
| 14 | It could be that you 're giving them some stuff that we already know or it could be that you 're giving them some stuff which is far too advanced for them , they do n't have the basics there . |
| 15 | Okay we 've only barely started if you take a a fresh piece of paper then , a fresh sheet of paper and and er the orientation that you now know we need to do if we 're going to do if we 're going to do a thought pattern |
| 16 | He was driven by a devil that he never knew but he never stopped fighting , a maker of his own myths , Celtic , Faustian , an Icarus and a Don Juan , coming out from his beloved Wales like a mystical warrior to rove the world for conquests , forever unsettled , forever daring . |
| 17 | I was hoping he would not offer us a glass of his very potent drink that I now know as Calvados . |
| 18 | ‘ Did … did you sleep here beside me last night ? ’ she demanded huskily , although she had a sinking feeling that she already knew the answer . |
| 19 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 20 | There was almost nothing for Diane to do but move around saying hello , accept a couple of dances , and nod amiably to people that she hardly knew . |
| 21 | Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you 've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about , that we 're tendering against . |
| 22 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 23 | The Sun had all sorts of details about my private life that I never knew about . |
| 24 | After a few false starts a whole vocabulary and syntax that he never knew he knew begins to well up from his old-fashioned black portable . |
| 25 | He returned on 16 September , telling Tom Jones that he now knew what Roosevelt meant when he said he felt like a ‘ bull moose ’ . |
| 26 | He decided that they were British ( for no reason that we yet know ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 28 | Dreaming is about using the information that you already know . |
| 29 | For all I knew , they were flying the plane that I now knew was never going to make it to Bangkok . |
| 30 | So I have discovered reserves of strength that I never knew I had . ’ |