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Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] know [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	The best non-human example that I know has recently been described by P. F. Jenkins in the song of a bird called the saddleback which lives on islands off New Zealand .
3	A lot of excellent furniture-makers that I know have an unreasonable fear of chair-making ; for some reason or other even the strong go limp at the thought of all those angles and curves .
4	In due course I will answer it for you , that and many other things that I know have quizzed you these past years . ’
5	Most people that I know have got cars .
6	But they are never the four that I know did actually make it on 11 June 1940 .
7	That I should back off from a story that I know needs to be brought out into the open ?
8	One of the most bizarre examples of convergent evolution that I know concerns the so-called periodical cicadas .
9	For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her .
10	Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail .
11	A sign of a good teacher that you know ask a student a question , point out to him that he 's not been paying attention .
12	I do n't have a magic wand I do not have a magic wand that you know take three deep breaths turn round twice and your nerves will disappear yep .
13	Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that .
14	Finally , what about those things that you know need a good clean , but you 'd rather just forget ?
15	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
16	So that you know see that they 're all different colours .
17	But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on .
18	After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ?
19	The replication processes that we know seem to need complicated machinery to work .
20	But cumulative selection can not work unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power , and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection !
21	The Worm turned and reared up at them , and there was something in its sightless head that they knew showed satisfaction .
22	Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain .
23	And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it .
24	All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise .
25	He strove through all his waking hours to impose a smartness and snap on Camp 3 , Zone I , that he knew had never been present before , and that during the night hours when he was alone he doubted he would ever achieve .