Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the tops of the heads Jess stared at her , hunting for help that she knew would never come . |
| 2 | and she 's doing other things through work that you know , I 'm I mean it in theory it 's sort of giving some support to . |
| 3 | But cumulative selection can not work unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power , and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection ! |
| 4 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 5 | This was the kind of prosaic patterning of self-absorption that I knew would entrance Mr Broadhurst . |
| 6 | At one point they came across a patch that was filled with every different kind of mushroom that they knew — white ones that grew like jagged clumps of coral , thick orange ones that oozed blue liquid when their stalks were broken , delicate saucer-shaped ones called ba uka , meaning bowl . |
| 7 | Lt John Garrett , commanding officer of the Walton on the Naze Sea Cadet unit , said : ‘ The yacht Rebel has always provided an excellent training opportunity for Walton cadets and we too share the sadness and sense of loss that we know our friends and colleagues will be feeling . ’ |
| 8 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 9 | Erm every new square inch of hard surface on the ground or roofing er means that less rain when it falls will er move into the ground or will run off more quickly or rapidly fill the water courses and er sooner reach the points of constriction that we know about and cause flooding problems . |
| 10 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |
| 11 | His voice was a husky purr of reassurance and the shapes of it in her head deepened to an indigo rock of security that she knew , without knowing how , was going to guard her . |
| 12 | Another point of contact that I know that you have , actually , is through the Brighton Festival Chorus . |
| 13 | Make it a team if you like you know get all the all the other bits of stuff that you know all the other knowledge get that coming in all working together so the whole thing just flows up and down nicely instead of |
| 14 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |
| 15 | Leaving aside the Romans , whose tradition of town-planning had been completely forgotten after their departure , the earliest piece of town-planning that we know of in England is that carried out by Abbot Baldwin at Bury St Edmunds , between 1066 and 1086 . |
| 16 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 17 | Suddenly she was assailed by a tangle of emotions , not least among them a silly sense of relief that she knew was totally out of place . |
| 18 | The clearest and most sophisticated expositions of secularisation that I know can be found in Martin ( 1978 ) and Dobbelaere ( 1981 ) . |
| 19 | He 's also got editing equipment so it might be the sort of thing that you know like you 'll be able to take it away and say you know , this section , that bit and then |
| 20 | You are no lord of Ralarth that I know of — and I know them all . |
| 21 | So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing . |
| 22 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 23 | The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house . |
| 24 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 25 | May I place it on record that I know that my hon. Friend is doing his best to ensure that south Dorset continues to have a large amount of Ministry of Defence employment ? |
| 26 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |