Example sentences of "know [adv] [that] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | We know now that it 's really needed to count the vessels because we will get definitely more information . |
| 4 | I know now that it was him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I know now that it was a whopper , as she says , and I also know now why she said it . |
| 6 | I know now that it was n't anything to do with you . |
| 7 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious . |
| 11 | If she were him she would want to , but she knew now that it was no use trying to put herself in his place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When Della saw this gold chain , she knew immediately that it was right for Jim . |
| 14 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 15 | Now , with it in her hands , she knew absolutely that it was not a worthless Victorian copy , as Rachel had once told her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He knows instinctively that it 's not a subject his father would want to talk about . |
| 18 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |