Example sentences of "and know [pron] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are .
2 We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound .
3 If such a program detective had descriptions of all the high-level languages ever written , and knew them to be all there were , then he could presumably work through them all in turn ( the obvious difference from the human brain case being that , even if it has a high-level programming language we have no idea what it could be like ) .
4 He said the words and knew them to be mostly true but could n't believe them .
5 He had eaten a small and early dinner and knew himself to be hungry .
6 I 'd written that , and knew it to be true .
7 Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it .
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