Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formalities were gone through — including , in this case , the obtaining of a marriage licence ; the bachelor of St Ethelburga 's parish made an allegation that he knew of no lawful impediment why he should not marry the girl from St Dunstan 's in the West , and it was there that they became man and wife on 21 June 1799 . |
| 2 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 3 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 4 | There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls . |
| 5 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 6 | Jean 's innate strength of character saw her fight the condition that she knew to be taking over her life . |
| 7 | In one case that I know of , a subsidiary of a major UK company got itself into difficulty through totally misunderstanding its product costs as engineering costs , written off as a lump-sum period cost , increased with the production of more advanced products . |
| 8 | A casual rapping that he knew at once was Marie . |
| 9 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 10 | And all the varieties of human kind that we know of do these things . |
| 11 | Erm every new square inch of hard surface on the ground or roofing er means that less rain when it falls will er move into the ground or will run off more quickly or rapidly fill the water courses and er sooner reach the points of constriction that we know about and cause flooding problems . |
| 12 | Finniston proudly describes it ‘ as the first essay in caring capitalism that I know of . ’ |
| 13 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 14 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 15 | We have no body that I know of . ’ |
| 16 | She made no attempt to prevent him from taking her into his arms , gave no sign that she knew of his presence . |
| 17 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 18 | a warranty that he knows of no defect in the vendor 's title . |
| 19 | Even if the patient is compulsorily admitted under the Mental Health Act , and can therefore be deprived of his liberty , there is no authority that I know of to justify medical treatment against his express refusal . |
| 20 | Here is a signature that I know to be genuine , on a document guaranteeing his overdraft of over twenty years ago , signed in my presence . |
| 21 | Leaving aside the Romans , whose tradition of town-planning had been completely forgotten after their departure , the earliest piece of town-planning that we know of in England is that carried out by Abbot Baldwin at Bury St Edmunds , between 1066 and 1086 . |
| 22 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 23 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 24 | After Bidarray there is no call that I know of to stop again before the small town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port . |
| 25 | The day after their attack , the American embassy in Thailand gave warning that it knew of a ‘ credible threat ’ to American , British and Australian interests in Bangkok . |
| 26 | On the night of Thursday Cameron slept badly , for no reason that he knew of . |
| 27 | ‘ I have n't a living relation that I know of . ’ |
| 28 | However , there is one other thing that we know about Elsie for sure : she did have a club foot . |
| 29 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 30 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |