Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie made no reply to this , and the child remained quiet until it was evident that she recognized the entrance to the area , for she exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! now I know where we are . ’ |
| 2 | She would take Josh and Kathy , go to cosy , comfortable London , where she knew so many people , and there she would sort out her life . |
| 3 | Rent a nice little flat somewhere where you know exactly what your outgoings are — where you know you 're not responsible for anything . |
| 4 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 5 | I was at University at the time ( showing me age ) at Keele which is right by Stoke-on-Trent ( except no-one knows where the bloody Trent is ) . |
| 6 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 7 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 8 | Just so I know exactly what I 'm doing . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 10 | He says : ‘ People still talk about the shot from Kenny Dalglish that went through my legs at Hampden Park in 1976 when Scotland beat England , so I know how Bobby must have felt . |
| 11 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 12 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 13 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 14 | I worked on farms for a while before I joined my present company , so I know how to handle a tractor ! |
| 15 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 16 | I played against Wayne Biggins , who had a tremendous game , so I know how much I 've got to learn to compete at the highest level . |
| 17 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 18 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 19 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 20 | Those " do n't come any closer 'cause you know how much I love you " feelings , Those " tell me that you love me , oh you did I got ta run now " blues . |
| 21 | She shrugged , still hurting at all he 'd suffered , although she knew instinctively that he would n't thank her for it . |
| 22 | ‘ Give what ? ’ she asked , although she knew well what he meant . |
| 23 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 24 | She did n't want to see him although she knew perfectly well that he would have to be faced . |
| 25 | Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should . |
| 26 | I never ever had a running line as I could offer anybody , although you know when the museum come , when I had orders for two or three dozen . |
| 27 | Very little more than she knew already about their relationship . |
| 28 | How well she was coming to know them : the Mid-day Demon of Accidie who dulled her mind and drained the words of meaning ; the Seraph-Serpents , ever hot upon his heels , whose bite flustered her to panic and anxiety ; then , by dark , the Ochim — doleful screech-owls whose appetite always demanded more than she knew how to give . |
| 29 | You know a lot more words than you know how to spell do n't you . |
| 30 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |