Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 Aggie made no reply to this , and the child remained quiet until it was evident that she recognized the entrance to the area , for she exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! now I know where we are . ’
2 I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ?
3 skipped half the stages or you know how do you feel when he 's working on the board and he skips several lines ?
4 Does he or she know when to do it ?
5 Does he or she know how to do it ?
6 He or she knows how , and can be trained , to manage fellow employees ; helping people to manage themselves is an essential core of management and managing relationships between people has to be concerned with always taking account of their attitudes and capacities .
7 How did Andropulos or whoever know when , and from where , that bomber was leaving ?
8 I was at University at the time ( showing me age ) at Keele which is right by Stoke-on-Trent ( except no-one knows where the bloody Trent is ) .
9 Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing .
10 As the effect is due to lack of information rather than any hard evidence of the situation , it can be removed by ensuring that everyone knows where the resources have been allocated and why .
11 There are some good points — like explaining that everyone knows how to keep their balance and that normal balance should be used when skiing .
12 Aaron Wildavsky argued that while PPBS had many shortcomings , the fundamental reason for its demise was that no-one knew how to do programme budgeting .
13 Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings .
14 Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice .
15 I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’
16 ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax .
17 I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it .
18 ‘ And when you see Bellybutton , tell him that I know where his brother is , and I 'll pick the bastard up whenever I choose and then feed him head first into a cane-shredder . ’
19 ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’
20 I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’
21 When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " .
22 I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . "
23 I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention .
24 ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are .
25 You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time .
26 That I know how but I bought it
27 I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’
28 He says : ‘ People still talk about the shot from Kenny Dalglish that went through my legs at Hampden Park in 1976 when Scotland beat England , so I know how Bobby must have felt .
29 I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going .
30 I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague .
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