Example sentences of "[conj] know it " in BNC.

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1 For Community Care 's readers , an even more unpalatable fact is that few social workers have any idea what to do if they suspect elder abuse or know it occurs .
2 I know that voice , or knew it . ’
3 Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure .
4 She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces .
5 ( Crick , 1979 , p. 132 ) The language is not so hard to understand , and it is jejune to suppose that not knowing it has impeded philosophy , or that knowing it will help a lot . )
6 The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's .
7 The other half of him speaking , the half that knew it ought to run .
8 A northern sense of identity concentrated by the frustration of spirit that knows it could manage better what its southern overseers only botch is pressure enough for a new drive for progress .
9 The tourist was well built , stronger possibly than either Creed or McGowan , but there was a pleading look in his eyes now , like a dog that knows it 's going to be kicked .
10 It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is — and shows itself to be — in the ascendant .
11 ‘ I am a commoner , and know it ; you are damnably common and do not know it , ’ wrote another .
12 ‘ There is no reason in it , I am most unreasonable and know it .
13 Is n't it because women are by nature inferior , and know it , so usually there is no need for them to crave to be treated as inferior ?
14 The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it .
15 As this knowledge of the remedies grows in you , do not be surprised if you sometimes ‘ just know ’ which is the right remedy and know it without any doubts .
16 Listen to the voice talking to you in everything you do and know it is not your voice , but the inner voice of the one who cares for you with love and infinite tenderness .
17 Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task .
18 Very nice to be able to step out of used underwear and know it would be laundered and returned to its drawer pressed and scented , even better never to have to worry about clearing a table or washing up , but nevertheless there was something vaguely disconcerting about maids who went silently , sneakily about their duties under her very nose .
19 I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks .
20 The fact that I am conning myself , and know it , does not , strange to say , seem to render the technique ineffective .
21 Open your eyes , and know it ! ’
22 They have been passed by , and know it .
23 Something looks delicious , we have eaten it before , and know it tastes delicious , and hey presto , we have an appetite for it .
24 If you come out to nothing like I did and you 've been a prostitute and know it 's easy money — well you 're going to go straight to it again .
25 We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound .
26 and know it
27 He had seen the tremble jelly of a captain 's chin and known it was his uniform and the blue unit tabs that won it .
28 I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back .
29 It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come .
30 It was foolish to cry for a dream but it was always so real , and knowing it was only her imagination did n't make it any less painful .
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