Example sentences of "he know [be] " in BNC.

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1 Morse says he know 's it 's inconvenient , but as it 's a violent death , he wants the personal approach .
2 He know 's , he know 's , just it 's twenty five .
3 He know 's , he know 's , just it 's twenty five .
4 ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . )
5 All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before .
6 All he knew was that the Eckleys were lending the Brownings their best carriage so they might travel the more comfortably to Rome for the winter .
7 ‘ Go on then , ’ he would say , coaxingly , and off Jasper would go in the direction he knew was right .
8 Even as he made back up towards it , half pulling , half swimming along the line leading towards the rapidly swelling shape that he knew was his raft , the water he was in turned solid , sweeping him effortlessly to one side .
9 And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong .
10 But that , too , he knew was dangerous .
11 He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands .
12 Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming .
13 All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband .
14 All he knew was that he had been inadequately protected , and that an attempt on his life had been thwarted by the merest accident .
15 He even borrowed money from his father for petrol to join friends in the search for the brother he knew was already dead .
16 I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever .
17 The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming .
18 His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) .
19 The next thing he knew was that the girl with the lovely face was with him in the hut , holding his head in her arms .
20 All he knew was that he had to get away from Weatherbury .
21 There grew in him a wish to touch with his fingers a future that he knew was that of many others .
22 Leaving until last the one which he knew was from Madeleine , he opened Aubrey 's .
23 Slowly , savouring the moment , Harry opened the letter he knew was from Madeleine .
24 He did n't know when they 'd be back ; all he knew was that his boss had some kind of private deal going with the gang foreman of a motorway sub-contractor , and the boys always appeared without notice , worked at the speed of practised moonlighters , and probably got their money in a plain envelope passed under a pub table somewhere .
25 Information that he knew was hard to find , proved easy to locate .
26 Charles smiled in a way that he knew was infuriating .
27 The law he knew was hundred-eyed , prying , and wakeful .
28 All he knew was that ‘ in the end , this court quashed the subpoenas based upon ex parte in camera briefings given to it by the government ’ .
29 One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere .
30 He rested on the water waiting for what he knew was going to happen .
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