Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pers pn] know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 2 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |
| 3 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 4 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 5 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 6 | Perhaps a telling comment on this is that a major reason for the recruitment of top , superannuated civil servants into business is that they know their way round the political labyrinth of Whitehall . |
| 7 | Our experience of the average guitarist is that they know what they want and they wo n't be fooled into buying fresh air simply on the strength of a good review ! |
| 8 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 9 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 10 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 12 | I know they are saying ‘ she ca n't sing ’ but the important thing to me is that I know I can . |
| 13 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 14 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 15 | thing is that you know we were at w we , actually we got lost and were asking directions . |
| 16 | The blessing of a pattern like this , where the motif alternates between dark and light , is that you know you are using equal amounts of each shade . |
| 17 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 18 | The result is that you know who bought what and where . |
| 19 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 20 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 21 | the important is that he knows what you 're on and why you 're on it , and you can tell him that . |
| 22 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 23 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 24 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 25 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 26 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 27 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 28 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 29 | Smith was a painful blustering bully of a man whose only redeeming feature was that he knew his job . |
| 30 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |