Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] know that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write down the communications and feedback necessary to make sure that everyone knows the details of the dance , where they are to meet , etc. , and that everyone knows that the others know . |
| 2 | He said that was fine and that he knew that the sails would be as good as the last suit that we had made for him . |
| 3 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 4 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 5 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 6 | ‘ The people are mightier than a lord , and if we know that , we — can — not — be — put — down . ’ |
| 7 | If we see there 's quite a few on the walkways , and if we know that they 're outsiders then we 'll we 'll turn round and we 'll walk back the other way . |
| 8 | If I never believed the dead could hear me , and if I knew that the dead could not speak , I was nonetheless certain that I could re-create a conversation with them . |
| 9 | And if you knew that pushing one particular thing was going to get you nowhere you did n't waste time going on pushing it , you left off and started pushing something else . |
| 10 | The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment . |
| 11 | I was greatly relieved , both because this decision was going to save me endless work in revision and because I knew that if all my marks over the year were taken into account I should not have any problem in passing . |
| 12 | But you have the power to hurt me , Ellie , and because I knew that I masochistically invited more . |
| 13 | I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us . |
| 14 | And since we know that woman was n't likely to have been his wife because she 'd … well , because of the car crash , we 've got to decide who it could have been . |
| 15 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 16 | There have been times when I felt that our family was disintegrating , and while I know that more than one in three marriages fails , that does not make watching your own children admit their unhappiness any easier for them or for you . |
| 17 | It is angering to meet with the retort from some doctors that this is so much mumbo-jumbo , when they have not themselves lived in malarial areas and when they know that the present anti-malarial drugs on offer are not failsafe . |
| 18 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 19 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 20 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |
| 21 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 22 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 23 | If A knows in advance that B ca n't come , then he is being deceptive ; but if he knows that B knows that he knows that B ca n't come , then he can not be interpreted as requesting at all ( utterance ( i ) might then be a joke , or if B is in an incapacitated ( say , inebriated ) state , perhaps a gibe ) . |
| 24 | ‘ But if you know that person , you can generally disentangle what 's really happening from the rest . |
| 25 | It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated . |
| 26 | But because he knew that I and my group would be careful he happily let me use his basic materials — boards , palettes , etc. — and we brought our own paints and dyes and drawing materials . |
| 27 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 28 | Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop . |
| 29 | But since she knew that the Czech word for ‘ please ’ was ‘ prosím ’ she was hoping that the polite woman 's parting phrase had been the equivalent of an English ‘ Excuse me , please ’ while she went away to hand her card over to Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 30 | But when you know that she 's safely tucked up in bed , you come out with a towel around you . |