Example sentences of "[Wh det] i know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’
2 He raised both his arms in his peculiar hieratic way , a way in which I knew now that there was something deliberately , not fortuitously , symbolic .
3 At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little .
4 I shall therefore only attempt to generalise about those parts of the world which I know best , and I shall be ruthless in the selection of my facts .
5 Such doubts exist in Yorkshire and Humberside , which I know best , and in other northern and western areas .
6 In preparing ours for today and the whole question of thinking of being , main precedency of communion rests in our understanding erm , of ordination , which I know later we we will have time to discuss .
7 Idomeneo was not an opera which I know analytically , so I set about studying its overall character and moods , as well as its tonal plan and shape/form .
8 In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance .
9 Er a pity too and er also the villages erm in the in the area erm which I know very well and my and the Letchworth er Letchworth itself .
10 ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 .
11 It was a case of being 24 and not knowing what I know now . ’
12 Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job .
13 ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool .
14 ‘ It 's a case of what I know now … .
15 Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor .
16 In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on .
17 In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on .
18 ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted .
19 Do you imagine that I could forgive and forget , knowing what I know now , or that any of you could meet my eye , knowing what you do ?
20 I went mad , he said well accidents happen , I said not with my fucking dad they do n't not to my dad I said I 'll tell you what Mr if I 'd have known then what I know now I would n't even let you operate , I would n't Joy I would have said leave him alone , I wished he 'd have died when the
21 That 's what he said , if I 'd known what I know now , he said I would n't of paid it !
22 ‘ I 'll tell you what I know so far .
23 When my mother , in a state of total embarrassment , attempted to enlighten me , I had to help her out by telling her what I knew already .
24 If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it .
25 I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines .
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