Example sentences of "know this [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know this is the first time you and I have been alone together , ’ he whispered . |
| 2 | ‘ Does he know this is a museum now ? ’ he asked , and then walked over to a glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 3 | Labour 's employment spokesman , Frank Dobson , fumed : ‘ Does n't he know this is a recession ? |
| 4 | " " How do I know this is true ? " asked the captain of the guard . |
| 5 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 6 | President , as delegates will know this is my first report to Congress from the Public Services Section and in the time available could I warn delegates and onwards to eight hundred thousand members , their families and all their friends and the eight million members of the T U C and their families and their friends , a sizeable group of British people who , President , now consider theirselves as past , present and future patients of the N H S , and rightly so . |
| 7 | Now that does n't the Kipsigy was just the study of the erm you know it 's a good statistical it 's good hard-hat social science you know with distribution and everything it 's all good stuff , erm they do n't say that , where we do know this is something I have researched myself very carefully , the Australian Aborigines erm we have rich data on this and I 've read an awful lot of it and I compared notes with world authorities like David McKnight and erm erm what 's his name erm Shapiro authority on this , and they agree that er that 's definitely what happens . |
| 8 | At the heart of the study of history is the question , " How do I know this is true ? " |
| 9 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 10 | I do n't know I do n't know this is why I 'm waiting for Brian to come back . |
| 11 | Do you know this is my daughter , you 've never met Tracy before have you ? |
| 12 | I think that conference should know this is the kind of employer that even the trade union Political Staffs have to deal with . |
| 13 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 14 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 15 | To know this is part of competence with the concept of B ; part of what it is to know the meaning of ‘ B ’ . |
| 16 | She had been a scientist long enough to know this is , in practice , how the world works . |
| 17 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 18 | ‘ I know this is a bit of an unusual hobby for a restaurateur , but it 's a little dream come true for me and I 'm thrilled to bits , ’ he says . |
| 19 | If your fuel bill debt is in the name of your landlord , and you pay him for your electricity or gas , you should let your fuel supplier and local council know this is the case . |
| 20 | I know this is really putting on you , but … well , I would appreciate it so much and will recompense you in any way I can . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Look , ’ Leila said quickly , ‘ I know this is a bit shocking and incredible and all , but … |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose you know this is all heresy ! ’ she said , gesturing at the Irish gods , who stared back impassively . |
| 23 | She brought a little parcel along the counter ; then , lifting another , she said , ‘ And I know this is your weakness . |
| 24 | I know this is quite usual for fathers in the Eighties , but in the Fifties when we had our older children , and the Sixties when Shanti came , it was not quite so common . |
| 25 | But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population . |
| 26 | Chemists now know this is untrue , but they remain the most unreactive substances . |
| 27 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 28 | When you say , ‘ I know this is true ’ , you are really saying , ‘ This is what I am convinced is the truth of the matter . ’ |
| 29 | I know this is tough on you — I 'm sorry for the pressure you 're going to be under , you poor old thing . |
| 30 | Yet those who know Diana know this is nothing more than a working business arrangement . |