Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 2 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 3 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 4 | He assures his readers that he knows how righteous they are : |
| 5 | It 's a business that is increasingly professional in its approach , because we are also in a business where we have to convince our clients that we know as much about what we do in our companies as they know about theirs . |
| 6 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 7 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three . |
| 10 | There was a silence of a sort that he knew very well . |
| 11 | Your forbearance is a weapon that you know how to use all too well . ’ |
| 12 | It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned . |
| 13 | I think it 's very interesting th that you know that has raised this point that you know why could n't the parish council come to us ? |
| 14 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
| 15 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 16 | I mean there are certain things like , the general conditioners to benefit , which erm , are alright , but there are other things that I know about and that I will pass on to people to look out for that I would n't want eh , that you would n't want eh , erm , outsiders to know . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | And it 's one that needs sort of a bit of thinking about , and again tie it back to the everyday things that you know quite a lot about , electrical appliances , things like that . |
| 19 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 20 | The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon . |
| 21 | She had the feeling that he knew very well what a struggle was going on beneath her words — and that he was amused by it . |
| 22 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 23 | First choose a state of mind , a feeling that you know particularly well . |
| 24 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 25 | And he told them that was in the flat that you know about and that there was suspicion that other occupants of the flat were in danger . |
| 26 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 27 | No I 'm just saying it 's harder for me , it was harder to have two people tutoring me because I , you were coming in with suggestions that you know already , you were n't , like then John was coming in |
| 28 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |