Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
2 | ‘ Unfortunately , being female does n't necessarily mean that I instinctively know how to behave as a mother . |
3 | I suddenly realised that I actually knew how to use a library . |
4 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
5 | No fancy page makeup programs , no page description languages , just plain simple word processing that you already know how to cope with . |
6 | And the trouble with ‘ sometimes ’ is that you never know when to expect it . |
7 | The trouble with trying to fool policemen is that you never know how much they know , which is always more than they admit . |
8 | The two-slit experiment neatly underlines a basic feature of quantum theory , that we only know where things are ( which slit they go through ) if we actually look and see . |
9 | He paused , as she turned again , her expression so forbidding that he scarcely knew how to continue . |
10 | Joan is proud of both talent and talent-spotter : ‘ Graeme said that just by watching Steve work you could see he had something , that he instinctively knew how to handle the food . ’ |
11 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
12 | It was uncanny the way that he always knew when he reached the pew . |
13 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
14 | He says that he always knew where he was with Ken . |