Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 2 | The main problem is that we rarely know what we really want . |
| 3 | But , the strength of this particular is that we now know an awful lot of about one another . |
| 4 | The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines . |
| 5 | In every competition , they believe the odds are against them and one consequence of this is that they always know that they have ‘ to be twice as good ’ and , as indicated in this book 's theme , ‘ try twice as hard ’ . |
| 6 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 7 | The scary thing is that I hardly know him . |
| 8 | One of the enlivening aspects of Alexeev 's temperament is that you rarely know what to expect . |
| 9 | The result is that you often know your grandchildren better than your own children ! ’ |
| 10 | Tomorrow 's World presenter Maggie , 36 , said : ‘ One thing we have learned from alcoholism is that you never know what 's going to happen . ’ |
| 11 | The trouble with trying to fool policemen is that you never know how much they know , which is always more than they admit . |
| 12 | As Colonel Gordon Wilkinson puts it : ‘ The big thing about services catering is that you never know what 's going to happen next . |
| 13 | And the trouble with ‘ sometimes ’ is that you never know when to expect it . |
| 14 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |