Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
4 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
5 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
7 | ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’ |
8 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
9 | 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 " . |
10 | 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 . " |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | That I know how but I bought it |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
18 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
19 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
20 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa . |
23 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
24 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
25 | Now that she knew how despicable Robert Sheldrake was , she would fight him with every method at her disposal . |
26 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
27 | Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy — if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption . |
28 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
29 | Just enough to make sure Okay , maybe not a difficult as that one was , just enough really to make sure that you knew how to do the calculations . |
30 | 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 . |