Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he or she know when to do it ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
| 3 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
| 4 | I never ever had a running line as I could offer anybody , although you know when the museum come , when I had orders for two or three dozen . |
| 5 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 6 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 7 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
| 8 | Every time you put some plant material in a book or press , you must have an efficient way of knowing the date on which you pressed those particular items , so that you know when to remove them . |
| 9 | Well , not an awful lot really I mean , you know , you , you ca n't win , as I say , it just seemed wrong that you know when people ask being asked to make cuts and make these charges that that amount of money should be spent on something else |
| 10 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |
| 11 | ‘ The police seized on that immediately and said ‘ Ah , so you know when she was due there ’ . |
| 12 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 13 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 14 | We knew these and other shows so word-perfect that we knew when a mistake was made , and noticed all the ‘ ad libs ’ put in by actors like George Robey , W. H. Berry , Alfred Lester , and Nelson Keys . ’ |
| 15 | Each character still begins a new line , so we know when a new person is speaking , but the ‘ said Puttermessers ’ and ‘ said Xanthippes ’ are pared to the bone : we have to deduce who is speaking from what they say and the way they say it . |
| 16 | Landlords say they 're keen to keep their customers , but they also want to make sure that they know when to stop drinking . |
| 17 | Down went Alvar Salvadores in great haste , and ordered a bell to be rung which was a signal for two hundred knights to make ready ; for the history saith , that the Cid , by reason that he was alway in war , had appointed such signals for his people , that they knew when one hundred were called for , and when two , and so forth . |
| 18 | THAT self-preserver extraordinary , Saddam Hussein , has once again shown that he knows when and how to cut his losses . |
| 19 | And I have to sort it out , sit there , sort it out and then work out how much it 's gon na come to , and then I know then when I go to the shop I know what to get , and I know when it goes in the cupboard I know that I 'll have a meal for every day of the week . |
| 20 | I listen to their stories , and I know when to let them sleep in the shade . ’ |
| 21 | because of a girl , I really think he 's loyal in that way , in that sense , because they are very close they have a laugh and I know when we 're with them they 're always like seem to be impressing everyone but I 'm sure when they 're together they have like , you know , human conversations , they must do , they ca n't always be talking about screwing and you know , which girls have got big tits and all that |
| 22 | Of course I could not apply for leave until I knew when Leslie would get his . |
| 23 | Cos I know when I was at school we actually got our sex education in fourth year , and it was by a visiting lecturer , it was this wee old man about fifty , he said basically , this is a male body , this is a female body , nothing about sexuality , orgasms anything ! |
| 24 | Oh this is this is you here is it ? the other side of the , cos I know when we tried to take photo 's off John , tried to take photo 's of John on the television because he could n't do it with all the flash or . |
| 25 | I know cos I know when , when I got these when I came , about two weeks ago |
| 26 | Cos I know when I went to the warehouse |
| 27 | ‘ You know when somebody 's got it and you know when somebody has n't , ’ Mr Graham 's argument would always be . |
| 28 | You all smell things do n't you , I mean you know when something smells horrible and you know when something smells nice . |
| 29 | erm it 's an automatic enhancement and it depends on your actual length of service and you know when you actually apply for the for the infirmity allowance . |
| 30 | And you know when after we had withdrawn our labour , then various things arose in that needed sorting out , and the bonus system there , if we thought ours was unfair , their 's was totally out the window . |