Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 2 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 3 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 4 | Mr Gray said the fact of the repatriations from Allied-occupied Austria in May and June 1945 was accepted , but what was at issue was Lord Aldington 's role , and the allegation that he knew that they would be killed . |
| 5 | The formalities were gone through — including , in this case , the obtaining of a marriage licence ; the bachelor of St Ethelburga 's parish made an allegation that he knew of no lawful impediment why he should not marry the girl from St Dunstan 's in the West , and it was there that they became man and wife on 21 June 1799 . |
| 6 | Lt John Garrett , commanding officer of the Walton on the Naze Sea Cadet unit , said : ‘ The yacht Rebel has always provided an excellent training opportunity for Walton cadets and we too share the sadness and sense of loss that we know our friends and colleagues will be feeling . ’ |
| 7 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 8 | Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard . |
| 9 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 10 | Before long , he would be required to produce more than just carefully worded facts about the murder that everyone knew already from the grapevine . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 12 | So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing . |
| 13 | There grew in him a wish to touch with his fingers a future that he knew was that of many others . |
| 14 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 15 | It is impossible to forget these mothers and the matter-of-fact way in which they relate their experiences , an indication that they know their suffering is by no means unique . |
| 16 | When he did n't move or give any indication that he knew she was there at all — although he must have heard the car draw up and , unless he was deaf , the car door slam — she marched across to him . |
| 17 | There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls . |
| 18 | I mean the Sierra , it 's a good offer on the Sierra but it 's , it 's like the basic engine and I do like a car that you know , you can put your foot down and it |
| 19 | there was a woman there that erm the police do this service thing where they 'll look a car over for you , if you bought a car that you know has been er in an accident and it 's been |
| 20 | On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use . |
| 21 | How much nicer Mark Ainger was , assuming in his remote kindness that everybody knew about the things he was interested in himself and being much too charitable to pass judgement on other people 's amusements , however unlike his own though they might be . |
| 22 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 23 | Even if that problem can be overcome , the vendors often then make a blanket disclosure to the effect that everything known to the management is disclosed against the warranties . |
| 24 | She lay down again and resolutely set her mind on sleep , with such good effect that she knew no more until a hand on her shoulder woke her . |
| 25 | The driver may be forthcoming that his boss said words to the effect that he knew there was no insurance but the vehicle was the only one available and the journey had to be undertaken . |
| 26 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 27 | No industry that I know would ever have publicly exposed such a failure and their frankness in so doing should do nothing but increase public confidence in the honesty and integrity of those concerned and also in their total commitment to the safe and efficient operation of the station . |
| 28 | The only bakery that I know that did n't do that was the . |
| 29 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 30 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |