Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] know [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 2 | He realised that he knew even less about the father than the son . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are . ’ |
| 4 | He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are in a relationship . ’ |
| 5 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 6 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 7 | The entrance charges also ensure that we know exactly how many people visit these Gardens . |
| 8 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 9 | He replied that he knew damn all about it but would swear it was . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 11 | If you know the difference between guitar sounds that you hear on the radio then I would maintain that you know too much |
| 12 | His first quotation related directly to trade union law reforms that he knows perfectly well were supported by my party . |
| 13 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you say that you knew pretty well everyone who was at that meeting , sir ? ’ |
| 15 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |