Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Before long , he would be required to produce more than just carefully worded facts about the murder that everyone knew already from the grapevine .
2 Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application .
3 Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable .
4 In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three .
5 There was a silence of a sort that he knew very well .
6 It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned .
7 Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible .
8 She had the feeling that he knew very well what a struggle was going on beneath her words — and that he was amused by it .
9 She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew .
10 First choose a state of mind , a feeling that you know particularly well .
11 They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today .
12 As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing .
13 Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle .
14 Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today .
15 She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best .
16 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
17 and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er
18 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well .
19 The uncharacteristic fuss and fluster in Ivy 's manner was surely a proof that she knew only too well which letter he was talking about and was in mortal dread of the family finding out .
20 Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more .
21 Well , we did very much so , we went , actually go , went and stayed with erm , with er a chap that we knew really
22 Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out .
23 The oxygen they produced accumulated over the millennia to form the kind of oxygen-rich atmosphere that we know today .
24 In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game .
25 Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life .
26 The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there .
27 The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for .
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