Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 2 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 3 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 4 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 5 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 8 | It was a considerable while before I came to know more Tory politicians and acted as an adviser , not to the party , but to a great many Tories . |