Example sentences of "they know [that] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did they know that they would get some money when he died ? ’ |
| 2 | Little did they know that they would be stepping into Hunter and Rae Brown 's shoes less than a year later ! |
| 3 | Such a situation also undermines the role of district nurses and health visitors if they have to go through that procedure when they know that they should be able to take the responsibility . |
| 4 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 5 | Rabbitte and Cooney , along with Michael ‘ Hopper ’ McGrath , will carry the main attacking threat but they know that they must avail of all their chances . |
| 6 | They know that they will get their allotted portion of time on the news , whether or not they say or do anything newsworthy . |
| 7 | Moreover , when one group of enterprises is given the privilege of retaining foreign exchange while others are obliged to apply for administrative allocations , which they know that they will frequently not receive , or to buy foreign exchange on the black market at a high price , the latter enterprises begin to think of all sorts of reasons why they too should receive part of the foreign exchange proceeds of exports . |
| 8 | When students pick up a BOOKWORM they know that they will rapidly become immersed in an enjoyable , skilfully-written story which provides an excellent introduction to real reading in English . |
| 9 | They can take artefacts , fragments of bone , curious edifices and so on , and make inferences from these , but they know that they can never , ever state precisely the truth of the past . |
| 10 | Furthermore they know that they can trust him because he will not filch money from the common agricultural policy , as Labour would do , to use it for other purposes . |
| 11 | They know that they can not have everything and that on occasions they may have to wait . |
| 12 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 13 | They know that we must build a new , enduring peace — based not on arms races and confrontation , but on shared principles and the rule of law . |
| 14 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
| 15 | Yeah , I mean , as long as it , as long as it kind of they know that it might change slightly after eleven . |
| 16 | Before Laventhol & Horwath , people said that it would never happen ; now they know that it can . |
| 17 | Given such easy money , he says , researchers do not have to give so much thought to their grant proposal , as they know that it will not face such a rigorous peer review . |
| 18 | More advanced instruction can be offered on this basis , and they know that it will be ( or should be ) available to them when they need it . |
| 19 | but he does n't tend to show me up as much now thank goodness , but late one night he really went naughty , you know when they look at you like that sideways and they know that you ca n't wallop them because those |
| 20 | Their loyalty has stayed with me because , despite the disappointment of relegation in 90/91 and our meteoric plummet through Division Two last season , they know that I can in no way be held responsible . |
| 21 | They knew that they would be pursued by the Dragoons so they posted lookouts on Loudoun Hill and other vantage points . |
| 22 | They had not been consulted and they knew that they would be caught in the middle if , as for a time seemed probable , there should be violent local protests . |
| 23 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 24 | For they knew that they could , in an instant , pounce upon their debtors and obtain payment for themselves even if all other demands went unsatisfied . |
| 25 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 26 | And they knew that they could expect no reinforcements from Scotland while they could have no certainty that a second force was not closing in behind them from England , since clearly their movements had been known , and their return anticipated . |
| 27 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 28 | The Fontanellatesi knew where his real sympathies lay , and they knew that he could not refuse to do as he was asked . |