Example sentences of "i know [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 2 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 3 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you to be a compassionate man , ’ the queen-dowager told him . |
| 5 | And I know you to be beautiful and to be most worthy to be my wife . |
| 6 | ‘ I know you to be right , ’ said Lydia in her reflective pedantic way , ‘ but I have not your courage . |
| 7 | ‘ I bring you because I know you to be one of us . ’ |
| 8 | However , whatever I know you to be , and whatever you 've done , I could n't let a woman spend the night out there alone . ’ |
| 9 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 10 | Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more . |
| 11 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 12 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 13 | This use involves then a shift in the way knowing is conceived , from the static , resultative sort of knowledge evoked by I knew it to be untrue to an operative view of knowing as " directly experiencing " something . |
| 14 | I knew it from being a kid , but I did n't even know the name of it . ’ |