Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance you probably know that Christians believe that Jesus came alive again after being dead and buried for three days . |
| 2 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 3 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 4 | Well of course you never know I mean if they close Saint Gregory 's |
| 5 | Of course I hardly knew him . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 7 | Of course I never knew whether anybody understood very much of my verses . |
| 8 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 9 | This is the Celtic family I have always longed for , complete with live fires , family feuds , squirming freckle-nosed children a-playing in the next room , suggestive sighing and eyeing between the sisters , the indisputable unity created by the sick mother/grandmother in hospital , the indisputable union of songs you always know whether you want to remember them or not . |
| 10 | She argues that while the research provides clues about the types of preventive programmes that may be of help we also know what a complex problem child abuse is : The implication seems clear . |
| 11 | There had to be freedom of association — that is , freedom to form political parties , and freedom to form the kind of associations we now know as pressure groups , whose purpose is to bring to bear on parties and on governments the combined pressure of the interests they represent . |
| 12 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 13 | Our friend looked at them , then lifted the leaves to expose a lovely row of radishes we never knew we had ! |
| 14 | This list is exclusively for things you definitely know you do not want to do , for example , 1 . |
| 15 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 16 | You know if you run into Brando he 's gon na play mental chess with you , but if you run into Sinatra you never know what the game is . |
| 17 | I mean with Derek you never know whether he 's going to get home or not . |
| 18 | After years of living with Lewis she still knew but did not know that ‘ a man ’ could regard reading as the main business of the day and everything else as an interruption . |
| 19 | ‘ I loved living in that Provençal château , in that very beautiful part of the world , with Picasso , Braque and Cocteau stopping by , but with Douglas you never knew when kindness would turn to vitriol … |
| 20 | but , then again with Eileen you never know with Eileen she says well it 's , it depends on our Sandra she said I 'm not building up on it cos you know what she is , but she says if you know she might want Alan to come and then she goes on and , and then , then she says I do n't know what we shall do really if we do come , she says cos if Eileen wo n't , she 's work , really ca n't come if Alan comes |
| 21 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 22 | And in addition we now know that Stratton was in Didcot most of that afternoon . |
| 23 | The children do not make a direct transition from structured signs into English written grammar ; in fact , they rely on structures in ASL they already know , and this forms the basis of their task solution of writing down English from sign users . |
| 24 | There were boxes of coloured crayons and wax , lead pencils and paints in colours he never knew existed . |
| 25 | A distant part of her mind wondered if she 'd ever be able to look at this man and not want him , but in truth she already knew the answer . |
| 26 | I had aches in muscles I never knew I owned . |
| 27 | Most were from people he barely knew — mothers hoping that he might be induced to take an interest in their daughters , hostesses needing a young man who was prepared to dance . |
| 28 | Cichlasoma carpinte is the name European fishkeepers give the Texas Cichlid , where as the Americans regard Cichlasoma cyanoguttatum as the true Texas Cichlid ; in Europe we sometimes know this latter species as the Cuban Cichlid . |
| 29 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 30 | In fact we now know that Jupiter , Uranus and Saturn have more satellites than was once detectable from Earth-bound telescopes , and some of the moons in the solar system are bigger than planets . |