Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] know [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house .
2 Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then .
3 And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa .
4 Because at the moment , er I mean they spend a lot of money on various footpaths that I know of which are a tremendous er price so let's be a bit cautious you know , because er
5 ‘ I 've a pretty good idea , now that I know of his existence .
6 She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while .
7 It was n't as if he was married to Wendy , or that she knew about it .
8 It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist .
9 Referring to her disgraced son-in-law as ‘ Mr Mellor ’ , she added that she knew of his decision to resign ‘ some time ago ’ .
10 She made no attempt to prevent him from taking her into his arms , gave no sign that she knew of his presence .
11 The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself .
12 The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms .
13 The more that you know about what is normal and expected in diseases the easier it will be to evaluate the Peculiars .
14 So it 's important that you know about your rainwater disposal system — so that you can either put it in good repair and keep it that way or safely replace an old system with a modern plastic one which will work properly .
15 ‘ And how is it that you know about it ? ’
16 ‘ You will not tell him that you know of his lapse , will you ? ’
17 ‘ I am only surprised that you know of it . ’
18 course that we know about it .
19 Botanically , it is a one-off with no obvious affinities and no immediate allies ; all that we know of its ancestors ( from fossil evidence ) is that they were once common over a much wider area , as near as Germany for instance , during the mid-Tertiary period approximately 30 million years ago .
20 ‘ That all that we know of ourselves is an unimportant encrustation over the true seed of the eternal idea which lives inside us , using us as a vehicle merely , which develops in spite of us .
21 We must ensure that we know in which direction we are going .
22 That they know of his desolation ,
23 We must assume now that they know about our plan to attack Bremen , but not when or where we will strike .
24 The fact is that they know from their own experience that many of their contemporaries take drugs occasionally and do not become addicted .
25 The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country .
26 And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't .
27 And if he could be sure of that , there must be other things that he knew about himself .
28 I felt such a hypocrite in church , knowing that He knew about me , knowing that no matter how much I washed I was still unclean , unfit to stand in His house .
29 Erdle kept hinting that he knew of something unsavoury about him — or possibly his family — and the angrier Gebrec became , the more Erdle taunted him . ’
30 Safi was obviously excited by something , but his usual bonhomie was so much in evidence that we could n't imagine that he knew of anything ghastly in the offing .
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