Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know how [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are . |
| 2 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 3 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 4 | The old fellow even came to see me , so you know how bad I was . |
| 5 | Moreover , studies of the spectra of the stars can tell us a great deal about their real luminosities , and hence about their distances ; once you know how powerful an object really is , and compare it with its apparent brilliancy , you can work out how far away it must be , provided that due allowance is made for complicating factors such as the absorption of light by material spread thinly through space . |
| 6 | Dr Mortimer cleverly noted the cigar ash , so we know how long Sir Charles stood there . |
| 7 | I 've got no bottom , and I know how awful and bandy I look , but still I feel good when I have to pierce another hole in my belt . |
| 8 | One of the Wurzels , Tommy Banner , got his accordion back thanks to " Police Five " — and I know how grateful he was . |
| 9 | But I am also a nurse and I know how vital the hospital 's research is . |
| 10 | ‘ I am Barbadian , and I know how difficult it is to get anything done here . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm doubly glad therefore to , to welcome their appearance and I know how difficult it has been and would like to praise all concerned for the intense nature of the negotiations which , which have gone on . |
| 12 | We 've got a stupid bath and you know how long baths take . |
| 13 | I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’ |
| 14 | And he 's running streets , and you know how cold it was last week , and he 's running streets . |
| 15 | And you know how willing the commons will be to grant an aid for a foreign queen ! |
| 16 | She does hope it would n't put you out , but she did n't know until yesterday , and you know how unreliable these baby-sitters can be ! ’ |
| 17 | " But if I do n't have that name you 'll walk the streets too — and you know how difficult it will be to find another position without references . " |
| 18 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
| 19 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |
| 20 | Ooh it was the leaves in one and you know how wet they are ? |
| 21 | ‘ And you know how particular Daniel is about the bathroom . |
| 22 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 23 | They 've taken a print of Hugo 's Amex , but I do n't somehow think he 's on good personal terms with them , and you know how tight everyone is on expenses , these days . ’ |
| 24 | The only other way over to the mainland is the basket lift and you know how horrible that is . |
| 25 | ‘ My son had it from Woolacombe — and you know how thick he is with Benedict Beckenham — that the boy had expected more than a hundred thousand . ’ |
| 26 | It might not be a frantically good i idea if you know how peculiar he is ! |
| 27 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 28 | We do n't like hurting people 's feelings , and we know how fragile the male ego is . ’ |
| 29 | Its a sort of signature — you can recognise that particular kind of star — it 's called a sephied variable , and we know how bright that is and so we can use that to get distances to nearby galaxies . |
| 30 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |