Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] know [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was all about money or you know there was n't a great deal of political activity or , or great deal of political work done in , in the Labour Party .
2 This booklet is written for secondary school children and young people who want to understand something about AIDS or who know someone with AIDS — possibly a friend at school or someone in their close family .
3 You can do it with a turn the carnation pink or you know it 's white , that sort of thing .
4 Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant .
5 Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret .
6 Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third .
7 Lt John Garrett , commanding officer of the Walton on the Naze Sea Cadet unit , said : ‘ The yacht Rebel has always provided an excellent training opportunity for Walton cadets and we too share the sadness and sense of loss that we know our friends and colleagues will be feeling . ’
8 We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently .
9 Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard .
10 ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it .
11 So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing .
12 But Dominic carried a donor card so we knew it was what he wanted , ’ said his mother Janice .
13 It is impossible to forget these mothers and the matter-of-fact way in which they relate their experiences , an indication that they know their suffering is by no means unique .
14 When he did n't move or give any indication that he knew she was there at all — although he must have heard the car draw up and , unless he was deaf , the car door slam — she marched across to him .
15 Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show .
16 The driver may be forthcoming that his boss said words to the effect that he knew there was no insurance but the vehicle was the only one available and the journey had to be undertaken .
17 ‘ Luckily , I 'm a big fan so I knew my stuff and , gradually , Madonna softened . ’
18 Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded .
19 It 's on the way back when you face north across the loch that you know you will have to climb Beinn Alligin .
20 Other schools ask the children to bring in the name of a senior citizen that they know who would appreciate a gift , by acts such as these the school 's status is again increased in the locality .
21 Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about .
22 He packs his girlfriend in then went with Jane , but he was still going out with a girlfriend if you know what I mean .
23 To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments .
24 Er or shall I leave her a piece up there and give her her tea cos she knows it 's ready ?
25 The first guest tutor will advise on self-defence and I know you will all welcome the opportunity to become more ‘ Street-wise ’ at a time when attacks on women are so common .
26 ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived .
27 I am general secretary of a small road running club and I know I am not alone in thinking that the increase in regional affiliation fees for 1992 is excessive .
28 you know that 's against me as well so erm so that that in itself has put a doubt in my mind if you know what I mean .
29 And then she said here she was hanging , handing it to a stranger and you know what they said
30 Peacock plans no decision on his future until he knows what 's happening to boss Kevin Keegan .
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