Example sentences of "[that] [pron] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are some good points — like explaining that everyone knows how to keep their balance and that normal balance should be used when skiing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
| 9 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That I know how but I bought it |
| 19 | I tell yer , Joe , I ai n't too partial to that cove , and nor ai n't I 'appy that 'e knows where I live . |
| 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 | The trouble is that nobody knows where the road leads . |
| 22 | Essentially the message is that nobody knows how far community care can be made to stretch without snapping under the strain . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 25 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
| 26 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 27 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 28 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 29 | She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa . |
| 30 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |