Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 2 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 5 | I think we might say that I know you too . |
| 6 | ‘ I try to just get the feelings across that I know he probably felt . |
| 7 | I ca n't imagine that I know anything remotely useful , but fire away . ’ |
| 8 | She 's not too unpleasant , even if she does pretend to like me more than I know she really does . |
| 9 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 10 | She felt that she knew him already . |
| 11 | He was smiling as if he recognized her , and she had a queer , uncanny feeling that she knew him very well … |
| 12 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 13 | But I mean , like , it did n't seem that you knew her like , properly , like , like to we all went shopping with her or something I ca n't remember now . |
| 14 | Thank you , Lord , that you know me through and through . |
| 15 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 16 | So that you know what not to bring , here 's the inventory for flotilla yachts . |
| 17 | She and I are going to clean Moor House from top to bottom , and make all the Christmas preparations that you know nothing about , being only a man . |
| 18 | Check that you know who else is to be present , anticipate what ‘ hidden agendas– they may have and be sure that you know the level of formality . |
| 19 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 20 | And so you know we just need to chairs up there . |
| 21 | But you , so you know them then ? |
| 22 | Cos I can travel three hundred miles on my own at night so you know it just gives me a bit of safeguard . |
| 23 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 24 | ‘ So you knew him well ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Because we are playing with mysterious forces , my child , that we know nothing about . |
| 26 | For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all . |
| 27 | Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about . |
| 28 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 29 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 30 | And it was her fault that he could tell , that he knew her so thoroughly . |