Example sentences of "[that] he know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 2 | In conversation Weight also attests that he knew nobody he liked sitting alone with more than John Minton . |
| 3 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 4 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 5 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 6 | The Director General of MI5 could truthfully say that he knew nothing . |
| 7 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 8 | When , on demobilisation , Freddie returned to Scotland , expecting to step into the role of country squire or glorified estate manager — despite the fact that he knew nothing about agriculture — it had been a shock to find himself coldly received by his in-laws and his wife , who informed him that she definitely intended to start divorce proceedings . |
| 9 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 10 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 13 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 14 | It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations . |
| 15 | Eudo had replied through swollen , bloody lips that he knew nothing , so the questioners changed tack . |
| 16 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |
| 17 | Interviewed by police Paterson said he and Bailey had gone to investigate a broken window at the hangar and that he knew nothing about how the fire started . |
| 18 | You know , it could n't be you know w we we could n't produce what he wanted , and certainly the material was n't there for the things he wanted to do , and yet he seemed to assume that he knew everything and would n't take any advice from the experienced men in the quarry . |
| 19 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 20 | I had no idea that he knew her . |
| 21 | And it was her fault that he could tell , that he knew her so thoroughly . |
| 22 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 23 | ‘ We did try , Sir John , but he obstinately refused to confide in us though I agree that he knew something . |
| 24 | Why did she have the feeling that he knew something she did n't ? |
| 25 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 26 | Mahmoud had established , though , that he knew him . |
| 27 | He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk , and it was plain that he knew her identity . |
| 28 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 29 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 30 | We therefore assumed that he knew what he was doing , and got on with our work as well . |