Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | James II succeeded to the throne but the favourite illegitimate son of Charles II , the Duke of Monmouth , did not approve so he landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt , but much of the public supported the King and the uprising was suppressed . |
| 32 | ‘ You should also know that we consulted with your Corps commander this morning , ’ the Frenchman said , ‘ and he ordered that we should be given every possible assistance . ’ |
| 33 | He will know that we propose for the sake of speed and practicality to use an existing valuation register , which everyone agrees exists and can be used . |
| 34 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 35 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 36 | Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults . |
| 37 | ‘ But no one can know that who breathes upon the earth . ’ |
| 38 | How do you know that she swims at night ? ’ |
| 39 | she just like thought he was , being a carpenter or something , and this brother , erm , her brother did n't know that she sung at all , so it all turns out to be a big surprise . |
| 40 | Did you know that she dealt in stolen goods , arranged thefts and then fenced the goods , did you know she arranged insurance for many of the smaller shopkeepers — her kind of insurance ? |
| 41 | Your audience must know that you finished on time , without knowing how you did it . |
| 42 | If you take part you will be showing solidarity with the poorest nations in the world and letting governments everywhere know that you care about the environment and its undeniable rush to destruction . |
| 43 | " I did n't know that you worked in the Biology Department . |
| 44 | ‘ A lot of guys out there now do n't know that you got ta have the timing and planning for this stuff , and they just go and do it on the spur of the moment and get caught . ’ |
| 45 | If you contact them by means other than our Reader Service Card , please let them know that you read about them in CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN . |
| 46 | One essay may have both first-class and abysmal features and yet be graded neither A nor F ; instead it may get a C which fails altogether in letting us know that it differs from another essay graded C which is consistently of that quality in all its parts . |
| 47 | ‘ I do n't know that I approve of quite so much black silk leg on view , but otherwise you look wonderful . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |
| 49 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
| 50 | ‘ I do n't know that I care for the idea . |
| 51 | On the substantive point , my hon. Friend will know that I agree with him , for I refused earlier this week to agree in Europe to the sort of laws that would have had the effect my hon. Friend sets out . |
| 52 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 53 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
| 54 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 55 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 56 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 57 | Man himself has to decide on the nature of ‘ goodness ’ , and to accept that it has to be found within the life on earth as it actually is . |
| 58 | To know that they belong to God is , for many Christians , the crowning joy of their lives . |
| 59 | She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives . |
| 60 | Kate felt inordinately pleased at his offer , even though she was astute enough to know that it came from a desire for any company , rather than hers specifically . |