Example sentences of "he know [that] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 2 | Mr Gray said the fact of the repatriations from Allied-occupied Austria in May and June 1945 was accepted , but what was at issue was Lord Aldington 's role , and the allegation that he knew that they would be killed . |
| 3 | Sam could not see exactly what they were , but he knew that they would be lions with their heads between their paws . |
| 4 | Although he knew that they could not reach beyond the full extension of their chains , Frankie was never fully convinced that he was safe from them . |
| 5 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 6 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 7 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 8 | Yet he must somehow tear the pain out with his hands or he knew that it would kill him . |
| 9 | He did not like the idea of being closed in a black tomb , though he knew that it would be only his Sahu lying there . |
| 10 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 11 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 12 | He knew that it would make her feel inferior and stupid and insignificant beside the sultry Domino and her no doubt dazzling sexual experience ! |
| 13 | He heard that the old tray — the papier mâché tray — that used to hang there had fallen and got broken beyond repair and he knew that I would notice the gap . |
| 14 | He knew that I would never let him marry her , and , besides , he has a girlfriend of his own , so when I offered him money to go away and leave her alone he stood me off as much as he dared , and collected a big enough stake to marry his girl and start a small business , which , he kindly informed me when he left , he intends to turn into a large one , one day . ’ |
| 15 | He did n't want me to try it , 'cos he knew that I 'd like it . |
| 16 | Because he lost sight of me quickly , he knew that I could not be going down to the river or turning left into the church : he had an uninterrupted view of both . |
| 17 | At the same time he knew that she would be aware that he had never been with a woman before . |
| 18 | But she did n't turn away from Bodie , and he knew that she would go along with the request . |
| 19 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |
| 20 | Deep down , he knew that she would be put off by any direct approach . |
| 21 | Perhaps to keep herself in countenance she opened her notebook although he knew that she would not refer to it . |
| 22 | He knew that she would be alone . |
| 23 | And he knew that she might be free this very night , free to fly where no man could cage her . |
| 24 | He slammed a fist up at her as if the force of his gesture could throw her the last five feet , and screamed at her although he knew that she could n't hear . |
| 25 | He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis . |
| 26 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 27 | He knew that he would have to go to her if he wanted her . |
| 28 | He knew that he would not . |
| 29 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 30 | The guilts and pains he had foisted upon a fictional being would come back in even greater strength to their source , and he knew that he would go mad . |