Example sentences of "i know " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Enough for me to know that she was very unhappy just before your father died . |
| 32 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 33 | What ancestral thing in me prompted me to know the cry of wolves ? |
| 34 | ‘ Everything 's nonsense when I know what you do n't want me to know . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ You do n't want me to know anything about you , so why should you want to know anything about me ? ’ |
| 36 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 37 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 38 | ‘ She did not wish me to know her family . |
| 39 | That 's for me to know and you to find out . |
| 40 | ‘ They 'll be pestering me to know when they can see you again … ’ |
| 41 | ‘ What she did say , though , was enough for me to know that Leith and I wo n't be moving to London . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ It would delight me to know exactly that , ’ he aimed back at her pointedly . |
| 43 | ‘ It makes sense for me to know what you have there , I suppose . ’ |
| 44 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 45 | You do n't like me to know more than you . |
| 46 | You dump it in there and then you suddenly expect me to know where it all is and I do n't . |
| 47 | But this was an eastern European car so they did n't expect me to know the make . |
| 48 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 49 | They would let me know as soon as possible . |
| 50 | They would of course let me know what was going on as soon as possible . |
| 51 | ‘ Let me know how you get along . ’ |
| 52 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 53 | If there is anyone you would like to recommend let me know . |
| 54 | Anyway , carry on and let me know if there are any real difficulties . |
| 55 | ‘ Can you let me know ? ’ |
| 56 | You have brought life where there was uncertainty … perhaps in part you have made me know myself , understood before by you . |
| 57 | Dearest friend — Let me know soon if you are quite well , and tell me just how you are feeling . |
| 58 | You must let me know as soon as you know when you 're moving , wo n't you ? |
| 59 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 60 | It was the only way he could let me know what had happened to him . |