Example sentences of "know that it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NAM 's Public Relations Officer , Howard Heeley , said that while the Museum were sorry to see the Mk 4 go , it was more than pleasing to know that it was intended to fly it again . |
| 2 | According to Richard Feigen , ‘ It does the art dealing profession a lot of harm if they are perceived as traffickers of stolen merchandise … dealers have to be able to stand behind what they represent , and know that it was bought legally otherwise you lose your client 's trust ’ . |
| 3 | The details of the legend 's growth are obscure , but it is now known that it was developing steadily in northern Spain and southern France in the centuries between the eighth and the eleventh . |
| 4 | The proposed investors in the management buy-out could be liable with the buy-out team if they acquire and misuse confidential information , when they knew or ought reasonably to have known that it was obtained in breach of the director 's duties . |
| 5 | He must have known that it was bound to come out , and when it did his case would appear that much blacker . |
| 6 | She 'd known that it was bound to lead to Arnie . |
| 7 | Pete had known that it was coming — the only question had been , when ? |
| 8 | He was a man , a friend , a fellow-rebel , a poet , with whom one could simply be oneself ; and write knowing that it was understood , respected . |
| 9 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 10 | The worst part was wrestling through the urban traffic , knowing that it was coming up to sailing time . |
| 11 | She knew that it was to do with her being pregnant , but that it was n't the simple fact of her pregnancy . |
| 12 | ‘ She knew that it was connected with Matthew wanting to build houses on land adjoining Maurice 's pottery . |
| 13 | The idea was just beginning to catch on in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run . |
| 14 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 15 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 16 | She gazed at Johnny beseechingly , begging him to understand , but she knew that it was going to be no good . |
| 17 | She knew that it was going to seem like forever , waiting for her friends , because the time you spend waiting always seems longer than it really is . |
| 18 | George had every right to be a bit angry with Lennie because Lennie had caused George to loose his job and Lennie had ‘ adopted ’ George as his family and George knew that it was going to be a long hard task keeping Lennie out of trouble and looking after him . |
| 19 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 20 | The team manager was well aware of it , knew that it was coming to a head , but took no action . |
| 21 | It was corrupt from top to bottom , and they were s They knew that it was going on . |