Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 2 | And he suspected that she had known more intimate secrets . |
| 3 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 4 | Living in such a house would nonetheless have exposed Leapor to a more leisured way of life than she had known before , though as a servant her enjoyments would have been circumscribed . |
| 5 | Supreme Soviet deputies were angry that they had known less about the test than the Greenpeace international environmental group , whose members had been thwarted in an attempt to disrupt the test when coast guards had intercepted their vessel off Novaya Zemlya on Oct. 8 . |
| 6 | She now suspected that they had known long before and were breaking it to her gradually . |
| 7 | They had to ask each other about one element in the writing that they wanted to know more about , and each writer had to act on this question . |
| 8 | But during a series of lawsuits against Johns-Manville , Pittsburgh Corning , and other asbestos manufacturers , it was revealed that they did know directly from their own scientific researchers whose implicatory findings were sup-pressed ( Ermann and Lundman 1982 : 68–9 ) . |
| 9 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 10 | And she remembered that he had known immediately who she was . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 12 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 13 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 14 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 15 | There were things the men never spoke of to Angie ; and she had known instinctively that Eric 's job was something she and he would never openly discuss . |
| 16 | Later that Christmas Gabriel had drunk a bottle of rum watching a pirate film on the television , and she had known then that , really , it was all over . |
| 17 | During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age . |
| 18 | The most startling yarn was that of Zhang Quo Zhi , who enjoyed a lifestyle which , if you did know better , you would describe as that of a successful capitalist . |
| 19 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 20 | We could have crossed the Red Sea a lot earlier if we had known then what we know now . |
| 21 | John finished by saying that if we wanted to know more about the Stanford University project , or needed an introduction , Professor Karol Sikora , head of oncology at Hammersmith Hospital , had worked there for eighteen months . |
| 22 | Everybody working for the Maquis knew about her loss , but no one helped — although their local information gathering was first-class , and they seemed to know just about everything that happened in Paris . |
| 23 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 24 | She told him where Dyson and Bob were , and he nodded and smiled again , as if he had known already . |
| 25 | Was it not sheer arrogant complacency for the right hon. Gentleman to tell the National Economic Development Council at its recent meeting that if he had known before that there would be a fall of 15 per cent . |
| 26 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 27 | If they had known , people might have said he was a reformed character , but nobody had known much about his bad ways because he had worked on his own . |
| 28 | Theda had reached down to clasp her trembling fingers lightly about the cold wrist lying on the coverlet , but she had known already that there was no pulse to be discerned . |
| 29 | Because she had to know once and for all what was going on , that was why . |
| 30 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |