Example sentences of "know [adv] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.

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1 In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information .
2 And anyway we do n't know exactly where it is .
3 Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ?
4 ‘ There is a body inside but we do n't know yet if it is Mr Spiro .
5 I think I now know sooner if it 's not going to be any good , you know .
6 To our sorrow we know now that it is disavowed by the spokesmen of this nation today , who publicly and proudly profess not to share it .
7 We know now that it 's really needed to count the vessels because we will get definitely more information .
8 I know now that it was him . ’
9 ‘ Yes , I know now that it was a whopper , as she says , and I also know now why she said it .
10 I know now that it was n't anything to do with you .
11 erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially
12 review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do .
13 Its magnitude is only 9 according to official estimates ; I have never seen it with low-power binoculars , but I have suspected it with × 20 , though I would not have noticed it if I had not known just where it was .
14 Exactly what happened between this date and 10 July is not known precisely and it is possible that in addition to the group of six already identified there were other DGSE agents involved .
15 When Martin Parr called him , at breakfast , he covered his surprise at being asked , and revealed that yes indeed , Jessica had got her own wee Taig — although he had to add , when pressed , that it was not known yet if it was more than an acquaintanceship or a flirtation .
16 I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while .
17 Apart from the undisputed fact that the farm in question was ‘ up ’ , the sergeant knew only that it was near a village called Santa Sofia , above a river and on the way to a church .
18 I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come .
19 What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need .
20 Sabraxis had given him a schedule to work through , most of which he knew already as it was based upon traditional pieces .
21 The men who inserted these phrases knew what they were doing , and they knew also that it was important not to overdo the subject of the primacy .
22 It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious .
23 If she were him she would want to , but she knew now that it was no use trying to put herself in his place .
24 They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them .
25 Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths .
26 When Della saw this gold chain , she knew immediately that it was right for Jim .
27 ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’
28 I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird .
29 Now , with it in her hands , she knew absolutely that it was not a worthless Victorian copy , as Rachel had once told her .
30 When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her .
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