Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was a silence of a sort that he knew very well . |
| 5 | Your forbearance is a weapon that you know how to use all too 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 | I think it 's very interesting th that you know that has raised this point that you know why could n't the parish council come to us ? |
| 8 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | First choose a state of mind , a feeling that you know particularly well . |
| 14 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 15 | And he told them that was in the flat that you know about and that there was suspicion that other occupants of the flat were in danger . |
| 16 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 17 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |
| 18 | It 's saying Sussex is n't a word that I know about . |
| 19 | Huy knew something about papyrus , having spent most of his life writing on it , and had managed to convince the man that he knew how to make it , without giving away too much of his true background . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Circumnavigators , explorers , soldiers , sailors , merchants and government officials of past centuries travelled to draw the map of the world that we know today . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | and er sh , you know the test before they could become officers they set captain set the table , you see the and they have this food that they know how , how to use the cutlery , this was one of the tests of being an officer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 30 | Well , we did very much so , we went , actually go , went and stayed with erm , with er a chap that we knew really |