Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] know [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 61 | She wavered her eyes at him , but he was n't going to hand her anything more , for she knew perfectly well she was pretty . |
| 62 | If she did , it was an existence fraught with danger , for she knew very well Wild Will was capable of murder . |
| 63 | We also had to make it plain that the present was for Mr Eliot , though we knew perfectly well that he would share it with John Hayward . |
| 64 | Poverty was not only rampant in the country villages , though , as we know only too well . |
| 65 | The Titfords , as we know only too well , were very far from being rich and powerful tycoons ; nevertheless , the trend we have just outlined was at work in a much more modest way even in their fortunes as time went by . |
| 66 | And of course , as we know only too well , it could be the result of a particular action on the part of the pilot . |
| 67 | However , in response to user demands for openness , Wendler argues , vendors will — as we know only too well — increasingly promote everything they can as ‘ standard . ’ |
| 68 | And , as we know only too well , every really valuable commodity falls , sooner or later , into the hands of some unscrupulous individual , who then exploits it for their own ends . |
| 69 | Unfortunately , as we know all too often , the players in the game of musical chairs are only a small part of the total group . |
| 70 | We need to challenge the ideology which claims the market knows best , despite claims that we are coming out of recession , we are still losing thousands of jobs because , as we know all too well , the market will always neglect our nation 's long-term interest for the short-term profits of speculators and asset strippers . |
| 71 | Thus having first laid down a basis of material being , material forms , forces , existences in which it seems to be lying inconscient , though in reality , as we know always subconsciously at work , it is able to manifest life and living beings , to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world , and must therefore be able to manifest their supermind also and supramental beings . |
| 72 | And , as we know so well , the Holy Spirit fell on the day of pentecost with tongues as of fire . |
| 73 | yeah , yeah I must admit it 's a poor do when they know exactly where the criminal 's going to be at a certain time and then they let 'em go |
| 74 | Liverpool continued to power forward , but in doing so left too much room at the back — a foolish thing to do when they know just how Beardsley can exploit space . |
| 75 | They felt that a much truer picture of people 's lives could be obtained by these methods of data collection than by the more formal survey , though they knew full well that all methods had something to contribute to sociological understanding . |
| 76 | None of the family can ever recall Eva being domesticated , though they knew only too well the consequences of jobs not done . |
| 77 | For they knew perfectly well that Lothar was waiting for one thing to happen before engaging in battle : one thing which would make him too feel he could win . |
| 78 | Successive personnel managers had always caved in to his demands as they knew full well that Clasper would win a stand-up fight . |
| 79 | They were therefore unrecognized , as they knew only too well , and were attracted by the idea of the possibility of a job . |
| 80 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 81 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 82 | So when he knows exactly where the , where it 's coming in from |
| 83 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 84 | Despite the assurances of the Director of his Department that he was favourably looked upon , and despite the fact that there was no doubt that at his office he was being treated with a subtle air of respect , nothing formal or official about his promotion had been announced ; and as he knew very well , a change of Directorship , a shift in Government economic policy , even a chill wind in international relations , could mean the end of his hopes . |
| 85 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 86 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 87 | Her son Edward VII , though he knew far less about clergymen than his mother , continued the same trenchancy . |
| 88 | As though he knew very well what she was thinking , his grin widened , and he burst out laughing . |