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

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31 She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw .
32 Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … .
33 She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew .
34 She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best .
35 She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing .
36 That was indeed something that she knew all too well , but she was n't particularly flattered to have it spelt out to her quite so categorically .
37 The uncharacteristic fuss and fluster in Ivy 's manner was surely a proof that she knew only too well which letter he was talking about and was in mortal dread of the family finding out .
38 When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day .
39 I expect that she knew too .
40 She always thinks that she knows best .
41 ‘ Would you say that you knew pretty well everyone who was at that meeting , sir ? ’
42 The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for .
43 He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are . ’
44 He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are in a relationship . ’
45 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well .
46 First choose a state of mind , a feeling that you know particularly well .
47 You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone .
48 First , be sure that you know exactly what is required , In some questions the statement of the conditions is deliberately written in a complex confusion .
49 No I 'm just saying it 's harder for me , it was harder to have two people tutoring me because I , you were coming in with suggestions that you know already , you were n't , like then John was coming in
50 Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out .
51 ‘ Any questions you like provided that you know only your daughter can answer them ; the nickname of a childhood friend , for example , or the description of some pet she used to have , anything that she will know and her captors ca n't know .
52 Just tell them that you know now where Bridge 173 is . ’
53 Since you clearly did not know then , how can you say that you know now ?
54 So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them .
55 He 's also got editing equipment so it might be the sort of thing that you know like you 'll be able to take it away and say you know , this section , that bit and then
56 and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er
57 And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want .
58 And it 's one that needs sort of a bit of thinking about , and again tie it back to the everyday things that you know quite a lot about , electrical appliances , things like that .
59 So there are lots of erm this is something that you know quite a bit about .
60 It would be a good idea to develop a formula for using this kind of programme so that you know precisely what kind of item you are looking for and , if you can arrange for a regular supply , you do n't need to spend a lot of time viewing it to work out how you are going to use it .
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