Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James II succeeded to the throne but the favourite illegitimate son of Charles II , the Duke of Monmouth , did not approve so he landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt , but much of the public supported the King and the uprising was suppressed . |
| 2 | I wonder if anybody would know that what happened here ah er er two or three year ago was a up till re recently they know very well that could n't last ! |
| 3 | ‘ You should also know that we consulted with your Corps commander this morning , ’ the Frenchman said , ‘ and he ordered that we should be given every possible assistance . ’ |
| 4 | As for resources , the hon. Lady will know that we spent about £3 billion on the health service in Scotland last year , which is more than £600 per head for every man , woman and child in the country and represents an increase of about 38 per cent . |
| 5 | Well do I know that we drove you into flight . |
| 6 | Two years ago I did n't know that we had an immune system . |
| 7 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 8 | By the way , Uncle , ’ she added , ‘ how did you know that we 'd gone in ? |
| 9 | They 'd never know that we 'd been and gone . |
| 10 | I do n't know why I became her friend , but I do know that we got on very well , + rarely ‘ fell out ’ . |
| 11 | We may not have been able to stop the legislation ( although we did succeed in reducing its scope ) , but we let the world know that we remained strong and proud and shameless . |
| 12 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 13 | Balor would at once know that they had outwitted Inchbad and Goibniu . |
| 14 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 15 | By the gardens , in the corner , they made er parts but I mean I 've never been in , in the factory , in their factory , but I do know that they made erm things for the motor industry . |
| 16 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 17 | But we do know that they reached a high , technology-free civilization , practised a sophisticated form of navigation , and ranged over the entire Pacific in ocean-going outriggers . |
| 18 | I did n't know that they produced according to peak |
| 19 | She took the opportunity despite the fact that many of her colleagues let her know that they judged her disloyal . |
| 20 | Did you know that they exiled me — me ! |
| 21 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 22 | Anyone who had read Hans Christian Andersen 's ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ would know that they did not and could not — not unless they married a mortal , as with Lúthien . |
| 23 | Do n't know that they did any , Victorian |
| 24 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 25 | ‘ So , ’ Alyssia joined in , ‘ we thought we 'd drop by and let you know that everything worked out in the end . |
| 26 | Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults . |
| 27 | Sadly , Crystal would never know that there had been a joke at their expense too . |
| 28 | Then , John said , he would know that she had been arrested because she had forgotten her pass , which all blacks had to carry , and would automatically telephone his father to go and fetch her from prison . |
| 29 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
| 30 | Knox J. held that the defendant was not entitled to rely on a plea of non est factum on the ground that the mother did not know that she had been appointed attorney and that the transaction was a sale within the power of attorney . |