Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N do n't know that I know just the whisky barrels they were , a little I believe there was maybe a name for them . |
| 2 | ‘ If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know ’ , wrote Francis Bacon , ‘ you shall be thought another time , to know that you know not . ’ |
| 3 | I expect that she knew too . |
| 4 | The question seems absurd until you realise that we know not in what manner the spirit survives . |
| 5 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 6 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 7 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 8 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I do n't think I — I do n't think that I know enough about some of the issues , to go along with it completely . ’ |
| 10 | She always thinks that she knows best . |
| 11 | The media seem unwilling to publish anything that might challenge the certitude with which editors , politicians , judges and others insist that we know how to increase measurable intelligence or that test data ‘ prove ’ , to use The New York Times 's word , that a poor environment causes familial retardation . |
| 12 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 13 | He realised that he knew even less about the father than the son . |
| 14 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are . ’ |
| 16 | He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are in a relationship . ’ |
| 17 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 18 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 19 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 20 | Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy — if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption . |
| 21 | We must assume that you know how to express yourself in sentences . |
| 22 | The entrance charges also ensure that we know exactly how many people visit these Gardens . |
| 23 | Ensure that you know where the resuscitation equipment is kept , what the emergency phone numbers are for fire and cardiac arrest and learn to use the oxygen and suction equipment . |
| 24 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 25 | If , as I have argued , it is normal and typical of human beings to have basic impulses to assist other creatures in distress , to find them appealing to view , and in some cases to enjoy their close proximity ( infants reach out naturally towards a puppy but get agitated by wasps or beetles ) , it does not follow that we know how to treat them . |
| 26 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 27 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 28 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 29 | THAT self-preserver extraordinary , Saddam Hussein , has once again shown that he knows when and how to cut his losses . |
| 30 | He replied that he knew damn all about it but would swear it was . |