Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 2 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 3 | It was something which Morton itched to do — perhaps only because he knew it was impossible . |
| 4 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 5 | The catapult ought to be safe so long as nobody knew its name . |
| 6 | The homosexual male is fine — is pretty good news , in fact , on the whole — so long as he knows he 's homosexual . |
| 7 | I 'll wait all night if necessary so long as I know you 'll be coming . |
| 8 | ‘ So long as you know what 's wrong , you can fix it . ’ |
| 9 | Professional and pecuniary plans meet with success so long as you know what you 're aiming for and do n't let others undermine you . |
| 10 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 11 | She loved him so desperately and she knew he loved her , but maybe not enough . |
| 12 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
| 13 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 14 | So far as we know there 's been no suspicion of foul play . ’ |
| 15 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 16 | Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 18 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 19 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 20 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 21 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 22 | So far as I know there is at present only one such scheme operating in London … and I would hope that it would form a pattern of similar schemes in other parts of London . |
| 23 | So far as I know my disappearance was never discovered by the authorities . |
| 24 | It should n't be long now before we know which one of you is the most suitable donor . ’ |
| 25 | Again , though , there were some things which she was not well enough acquainted with him to mention — especially now that she knew who her Good Samaritan of yesterday was . |
| 26 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 27 | Reasoning powers can deteriorate : people may begin to think irrationally ( and do so even though they know they are doing so ) ; they may begin to get paranoid , feeling that others are slyly poking fun at them , excluding them from discussions , or being condescending or patronizing . |
| 28 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 29 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 30 | He was a Gemini , and it was all there when you knew what to look for : the cleverness , the ability to dissemble , the airy arrogance , the wry cynicism , the way he was expert at playing a double game … |