Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |
| 2 | Using either of these two methods you know exactly what you are receiving in your own currency and can adjust your price accordingly . |
| 3 | So you know , we had back room for the , the elder and the youngsters into , to , well we were only kids you know then . |
| 4 | Pick three subjects you know well , such as your hobby , your job , and your mother . |
| 5 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
| 6 | About three or four big bigger high street shops you know like Alders and what is the next ? |
| 7 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 8 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |
| 9 | I mean B squared 's nineteen squares you know just under four hundred is n't it ? |
| 10 | tragically yes , or all boys ' schools you know here are young men who have had thousands of pounds spent on their education , and when they arrive in an environment like Oxford they somehow seem to be less capable than other young men of behaving with decency towards the students they are being educated with . |
| 11 | He was cutting it proper shapes you know like they are today . |
| 12 | Of the minstrel songs of the tenth and eleventh centuries we know exceedingly little . |
| 13 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 14 | Two others were journalists he knew already . |
| 15 | As he turned and looked into her eyes he knew instinctively there was no need to worry on that score . |
| 16 | But last month the Department of the Environment revealed that , out of more than 1500 large dams it knew about 191 have no known owner — and many more have no certificate of safety . |
| 17 | This view is hedged about with reservations — and indeed few parents who know both their children 's capacities and their teachers ' helpfulness will expect schools to be measured entirely in this way . |
| 18 | I ca n't complain about the windows cos o you know , I have n't had no draughts really but then you get parasites you know like fleas and bugs coming through these ventilations . |
| 19 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 20 | When Byrd 's songs have finally been recognized for what they are , there will at last be a recording of ‘ O dear life , when may be it be , sung to its complete text all eight stanzas of Sir Philip Sidney 's agonizingly erotic poem by five brave and talented singers who know exactly what they are doing . |
| 21 | There are certain problems that must be solved ( childcare is number one ) , certain inequalities , both in the workplace and home , that are still to be ironed out , but in your personal lives you know precisely where you are going . |
| 22 | Soon he was in Belgium and facing a committee of patriots who knew only too well how the Gestapo had infiltrated supposed POWs into organisations . |
| 23 | They knew every day you , when you went on the rounds they knew just where to stop and start , especially the last pony I had . |
| 24 | People will stand there and they will clutch something , you see their knuckles are white you know and these sort of things erm or they 'll have their notes you know here , and let's be honest about it yeah I can remember when I started training I think you know you used to cling to your notes a three feet flipchart , you know what ca n't you see ? |
| 25 | Something about skills you know like telephone technique you know how can you measure somebody 's telephone technique ? |
| 26 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 27 | which we certainly were n't doing , were we , in the last last year er review and the mechanics of the fax service we already thought that took up a lot of hours you know just putting , faxing them through , receiving them |
| 28 | ‘ How interesting that after only a few hours you know so much about me . |
| 29 | The family moved to the middle of the country , a contrast to the northern industrial cities she knew so well and ‘ definitely warmer ’ than the West of Sheffield . |
| 30 | Indeed , for all but those organisations which know precisely how much additional manpower they need and for how long , in their simple form they are a particularly unsuitable means of employing temporary workers . |