Example sentences of "he know that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he known that the man should be allowed to father his children ? |
| 2 | Rincewind occasionally had nightmares about teetering on some intangible but enormously high place , and seeing a blue-distanced , cloud-punctuated landscape reeling away below him ( this usually woke him up with his ankles sweating ; he would have been even more worried had he known that the nightmare was not , as he thought , just the usual discworld vertigo . |
| 3 | Had he known that the sinecure into which he had expected to step was but a chimera , he would have opted for staying in the army which had , in fact , suited him . |
| 4 | But he could not move and , even if he had been able to , he knew that the Robemaker could fell him in a breath-space by sorcery . |
| 5 | He knew that the attainment of impeccable technique meant a lifetime — in de Pomiane 's case an exceptionally long one — of experiment and discipline . |
| 6 | Jesus only had to say the word and he knew that the servant would be healed ( Luke 7:7 ) . |
| 7 | He knew the wording by heart : Attempt to export equipment with intent to evade prohibition then in farce by the Provision of the Export Control and Goods Order and C & E Management Act ( Section 68/2 ) , 1979 … and he knew that the offence carried a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment … |
| 8 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 9 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |
| 10 | He was a patient man : he knew that the attitude of Heads and teachers could not be changed overnight . |
| 11 | He knew that the darkness had not really changed , that it was because of the strength of the light within , and that it was because of Fael-Inis 's radiance . |
| 12 | He knew that the animal would either kill Sir Henry or would hurt him so badly that it would be easy to complete the murder . ’ |
| 13 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 14 | He knew that the Genesis account of man 's fall from grace could be read as an indictment of a thirst for knowledge . |
| 15 | Ever since he became leader , he knew that the election was the great test , and a test for which his curiously sheltered political career had little prepared him . |
| 16 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 17 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 18 | But was he under any duty to do more than he did merely because he knew that the money was intended ultimately to be lent by the father to the son ? |
| 19 | Here he knew that the school provided the only chance for its pupils to understand quite how much the newer technologies now mattered both in the life of work and in the daily organization of our private lives . |
| 20 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 21 | He knew that the licence which had pervaded Nogai 's court had been its least attractive feature . |
| 22 | He knew that the archer would have to load and winch his bow , so he rose and ran with all his force , clearing the trees , almost breathless as he stumbled up the muddy causeway leading to the main abbey gate . |
| 23 | He knew that the constable on patrol in Boundary Drive had noticed no strange cars parked in the road that night as he passed along . |
| 24 | But as he tapped it , expertly , for he had suffered an onslaught of boils over a suppurating , pus-stinking twelvemonth , he knew that the hardness meat it was not quite ripe . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) If he knew that the writing or printing contained or referred to conditions , he is bound . |
| 26 | Although in his heart he knew that the war was unwinnable , he determined that he would put off the end for as long as possible . |
| 27 | Although Franco exploited to the full his position at the head of a non-participant and strategically important European state , he knew that the war would not last for ever . |
| 28 | Already he knew that the difference was there . |
| 29 | He knew that the office staff might open it and read it so he had to make it impersonal . |
| 30 | He knew that the city was unready , and its defences inadequate , to withstand a siege , despite the two rings of forts and redoubts , which had been constructed after the debacle of 1871 but neither properly maintained nor modernized . |