Example sentences of "know that they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 2 | Balor would at once know that they had outwitted Inchbad and Goibniu . |
| 3 | Any council which has adopted ‘ wheely bins ’ — those menacing lidded daleks that line the pavement once a week — will know that they have increased the average volume of collected waste dramatically . |
| 4 | How , to start with , do they know that they have reached part of the sea where the water below them has suddenly become very much deeper ? |
| 5 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 6 | The trainees will know that they have achieved this competence . |
| 7 | She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’ |
| 8 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 9 | Both are happy with the set-up and for people to know that they have come to an arrangement on leading separate lives . |
| 10 | Many people wish to plan their funerals in advance , and to know that they have set aside the money to pay for them : |
| 11 | I know that they 've stopped people doing it in the past because they would n't , did n't want . |
| 12 | and they say you know that they 've sold |
| 13 | I would assume by now that erm you know that they 've finished operating and it 's alright . |
| 14 | ‘ Users can buy WINDOS now , use the DOS spreadsheet , and know that they 've got the Windows spreadsheet ready to go as and when they 're ready , ’ says Ms Reay . |
| 15 | So the rock-scavengers know that they have got bits of the Martian surface without having to go there . |
| 16 | There are people who know that they have experienced deep within themselves a reality which gives them simple and overwhelming certainties about the real goals of human existence and which transforms their lives . |
| 17 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 18 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 19 | The tradesmen had also the satisfaction of knowing that they had saved the cricket club , paying off its debts and placing it firmly on its feet again . |
| 20 | ‘ I think everyone connected with the club can go home knowing that they have done their best . |
| 21 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | She only knew that they had made love at all by the sticky wetness in between her thighs and on the bedsheet . |
| 23 | And they knew that they had acquired their theories of the relation between schooling and life from their parents . |
| 24 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
| 25 | One dog would go in , and she 'd just shake her tail and come back , and you could n't get her in afterwards because she knew that they 'd cleared off . |
| 26 | Often these are people who have had a fairly ‘ secret ’ sort of relationship , such as a lover or a homosexual partner , and who therefore feel they have to bear their loss alone , because no one knows that they have sustained one . |