Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 2 | The idea that he was alive crystallized the need to let him know that we were trying to help him . |
| 3 | Because if we happened , just happened to discover , or even suspect , that our spontaneity was part of their order , we 'd know that we were lost . |
| 4 | ‘ You will know of our history and you will know that we were sent into that slumber many hundreds of years ago , by the Dark Lords who held sway in the reign of the High King Cormac . ’ |
| 5 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 6 | Perhaps they 'd never know that they were moving at all . |
| 7 | Did the children know that they were being studied , and did the teachers know that they were taking part in such an experiment ? |
| 8 | Did the pupils know that they were being studied , did the teachers know that they were being studied and did the teachers know that they were taking part in an educational experiment ? |
| 9 | Little did the inhabitants know that they were shovelling gold , ‘ white gold ’ , and that the ensuing gold rush would one day change their lives and their mountains for ever . |
| 10 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 11 | Anna — of course — did n't know that they were having an affair , so now there were awkwardnesses , unfunny lies . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got so much on my mind , ’ said my mother irritably , letting us know that she was bearing the.full burden of the forthcoming taxing ceremony . |
| 13 | Pete 's guess was that everybody in the valley knew something about her by now , and nearly all of them would know that she was staying in his house . |
| 14 | As she paced , unaware of the picture she presented of extreme agitation , she looked only at the ground , and so did not know that she was observed . |
| 15 | I know she was , she , you did know that she was recording did n't you ? |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't know that she was drowned , ’ said Spruce evenly . |
| 17 | I have in fact si since seeing this sent her a copy of the paper I put to this meeting , erm , having seen that , because I did n't know that she was waiting for it to the commentary with . |
| 18 | But they did n't know that she was crossing a bog . |
| 19 | His predecessor , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , crept into Liverpool and crept out again without letting people know that she was coming . |
| 20 | I did n't know that you were related to her . ’ |
| 21 | You know nothing of the world in which you have come to live , and I should have warned you about Rose , only I did not know that you were going out with her until after you had gone , and then , of course , it was too late . ’ |
| 22 | But I do know that he was threatened . ’ |
| 23 | Where a defendant states that he did not know that he was disqualified this will not amount to a defence Taylor v Kenyon [ 1952 ] 2 All ER 726 . |
| 24 | The party who supplies the infant does so at his peril ; it will not avail him that he did not know that he was dealing with an infant , or that he thought that his position in life was such as to make the goods necessary , or that he did not know that the infant was already sufficiently supplied . |
| 25 | He did n't talk about groups he was involved with but I did know that he was playing with a group . |
| 26 | It makes it clear that a shopkeeper who sells cigarettes to young people can not simply say that he did not know that he was doing so . |
| 27 | Elaine still did not know that he was going to lose his job . |
| 28 | Little did I know that I was hooked . |
| 29 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 30 | He did n't know that I was meaning the blood in his mouth and he said : ‘ You have bitten half your tongue off . ’ |