Example sentences of "know [be] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land .
2 ‘ What they do n't know is that we do n't look like that either . ’
3 All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’
4 What you do know is that it has caused you considerable hurt and pain .
5 What you do n't know is that she saved my life during the war . ’
6 Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon !
7 What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office .
8 In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him .
9 What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack .
10 What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress .
11 And what she did not know was that she had even more lessons to learn — and that some of them might not be pleasant .
12 All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk !
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