Example sentences of "know he [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |
| 2 | It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint . |
| 3 | We understand that was de-mob happy for quite some time and erm I know he 's been disappointed recently with the Tories losing control of the local Council down down in the happy glades down South but the pink gin and pink knickers approach of Councillor is becoming a joke . |
| 4 | You know he 's been good going to bed . |
| 5 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 6 | Gin er was that er Alderman , the old gentleman , the older alderman , you know he 's been dead years now from , and erm they were very good . |
| 7 | When the Robemaker spoke again in his soft hissing voice , he knew he had been right . |
| 8 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 9 | As soon as he saw Pickerage he knew he had been right : here was a boy who had often gone for interviews in the headmaster 's study . |
| 10 | Dinah knew he had been kind to Paul , and was bringing out his second book ; and Paul had started on a third . |
| 11 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 12 | Lachlan was near heaving the shipmaster overboard , but he knew he 'd been wrong . |
| 13 | He knew he 'd been wrong about me . |