Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] know [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took everything out of their boxes ; they returned their Christmas goods — yes , even today , and they wanted to know if the Kenwood would work in America . |
| 2 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 3 | With sin and corruption , doom and catastrophe , threatening on every side , the only danger from the clergy came if they failed to know or do their job . |
| 4 | Broadly , if the courts believe the authority would still have granted the consent if they had known that they could not have imposed the condition in question , the permission stands without the offending condition , but if the answer is that they probably would not , then the permission itself falls . |
| 5 | Back at F.B.I.H.Q. , where the book ran the show , they would have been climbing the walls in the Office of Liaison and International Affairs if they had known that he was out on his own . |
| 6 | If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small . |
| 7 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 8 | who wanted to live together , and wanted to have a child , but they wanted to know whether they would have equal rights as parents |