Example sentences of "known [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 2 | He had not budged , and if she had n't known better she would have said that he was jealous , but , of course , the idea was ridiculous . |
| 3 | It was another miracle that it was so near the hospital , and that the driver of the car , who had been able to step out of it without any aid , had in fact been a Fitzwilliam Square doctor himself , who had known exactly what to do . |
| 4 | The Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , should carry the can , even though he may not have known exactly what was being done by his people . |
| 5 | John would have known exactly what to say to him . |
| 6 | The barn where it was held was owned by a local farmer , John Ellis , and if Kate knew anything about it , he had known exactly what was going on . |
| 7 | I might not have known exactly what rationalism was but it was nevertheless deeply engrained in my picture of the world . |
| 8 | Before he had entered Yuan 's quarters , he had known exactly what he was going to say . |
| 9 | And if he 'd come across any other married woman who kept on buying her husband horses and dogs and fishing tackle and pointing him towards the open countryside while she stayed in town , then he 'd have known exactly what to think . |
| 10 | He 'd known exactly what he was doing all along . |
| 11 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 12 | It 's not yet known exactly what the chemicals are , but no-one is taking any chances . |
| 13 | THIEVES who targeted two domestic garages in Mynydd Isa on the same night must have known exactly what they were after for in both cases they stole Kawasaki Jet skis worth of £2,000 each . |
| 14 | This man had known exactly who she was and had taken the trouble to speak in English . |
| 15 | Alice thought perhaps she 'd known already she was ill . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 17 | It was not known yesterday what the exact number of redundancies would be but it is hoped that they can be achieved voluntarily . |
| 18 | He remembered a girl he had known once who used to say ‘ franchement ’ whenever she meant ‘ frankly ’ — rather a soupy girl , and far from frank , but consoling all the same on despairing Sundays , and she had made beautiful casseroles . |
| 19 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 20 | And she remembered that he had known immediately who she was . |
| 21 | When he had rung the German Embassy , after a thoroughly unsatisfactory morning , neither Suzanne Simonis nor Hannele had recognized the name , although both had known immediately who it was . |
| 22 | As much as five mitochondrial introns are known today which are inserted at the same position as intron 1 in P.wickerhamii . |
| 23 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 24 | These outcries became her trademark , by which she was known everywhere she went . |
| 25 | Had Mr Malik known quite what he was taking on when he hired Dr Ali ? |
| 26 | So , yes , with a neighbour he would have known precisely what to do . |
| 27 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd known almost nothing . |
| 29 | If I 'd have known earlier I could have done it . |
| 30 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |