Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pron] know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 2 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 3 | The result is that you know who bought what and where . |
| 4 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |
| 5 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 6 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 7 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 8 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 9 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 10 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 11 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 12 | Can I ask you what your reaction was when you knew you were going to be cautioned and not prosecuted ? |
| 13 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 14 | and then the rest is but I know she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , the rest is the same as you 've just done , OK ? |
| 15 | We do not completely know what modern writing is unless we know what lies behind it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 17 | thing is that you know we were at w we , actually we got lost and were asking directions . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sure , but the best thing is if I know everything , then I can judge how much has to be said to Mother Clare . ’ |
| 19 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 20 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 21 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 22 | The prosecution claimed Jean-Marc Brennez was somebody Miss Giles had made up and the reason it was billed only as a surprise film was because she knew she did not have the right to show it . |
| 23 | Smith was a painful blustering bully of a man whose only redeeming feature was that he knew his job . |
| 24 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 25 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 26 | Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review ! |