Example sentences of "who think [pers pn] know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victorian scientists were devoted to facts , and even more were the Gradgrinds for whom knowledge meant a multitude of facts , and who thought they knew what a fact is . |
| 2 | There were many women who thought they knew him intimately , and each believed that she alone could unravel the knot of his heart . |
| 3 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 4 | Time after time , ministers who thought they knew their churches inside-out discover new factors relating to their growth or lack of it , of which they would have remained blissfully unaware if they had not taken the trouble to investigate . |
| 5 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 6 | The Dean , who thought he knew what was wrong with the Bishop , who pitied him and prayed for him daily as a man of his own kind , had absolutely no intention of enlightening Wheeler . |
| 7 | But not only is it a way of classifying policemen and women : the term is also used to criticize those outsiders who think they know something about policing , such as lawyers , academics , researchers , and journalists ; it is also a self-appellation of praise . |
| 8 | And for those who think they know nothing about building and are turned off by the sight of rotting wood , then perhaps this will help to change their attitude . |
| 9 | There are too many people among them who think they know it all ’ . |
| 10 | Er but what I become , I thought you might become more confrontational but you did n't so so you dug a hole for yourself that you could 've dug out of you sat in there but I think you handled that quite well , but there are people like me out there who think they know it all and will have a go at you . |