Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening .
2 I like to rehearse the bad things so that I 'll know how to behave when they really happen . ’
3 Moore 's view would be , I take it , that someone might know exactly what that state of mind was like , either by personal experience or imagination , without recognizing that it was bad , as he could not without taking in all those properties by sharing which another state of mind would be just like it .
4 I would like to take you , stage by stage , through a typical case so that you may know precisely what to expect in both present-life and past-life regression .
5 Unfortunately if you do not know this there is not much else that you can know either , it seems .
6 Make sure that there is adequate follow-up included in the deal so that you will know how and where the tape was used and can assess its value for future PR programmes .
7 Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly .
8 ‘ I knew you were n't going to believe me , but it seemed only fair that you should know why I agreed to marry you . ’
9 ‘ I wish instead that you should know where you belong .
10 It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required .
11 We do n't yet know what these are , but for reasons which it would n't be proper for me to go into we believe that we may know more about them in about a week .
12 He made a powerful intervention claiming that we must know where we are before we can take decisions , or we shall be paying twice — once in respect of the negotiations and then for the GATT round .
13 So Steve and myself are er have done a done a bid that we should know today whether or not it 's going to the main group , and if it goes to the main group , there 's a great chance it 'll be accepted .
14 He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) .
15 And it is only when the vote is over that we will know how the MMB will be run in the coming year , and if there will be any change in the way decisions on the future of the board are taken .
16 Henry Mansel the philosopher-theologian after all published in 1858 The Limits of Religious Thought arguing that we can know almost nothing positive about God ; this God is not so far from Tyndall 's inscrutable Power .
17 Sooner or later we must find somewhere that we can know really belongs to us .
18 So she went instead to the place that advertised on the tube that it helped you if you were pregnant ; she thought there might be the small chance that they would know where she could get an abortion .
19 It is all too easy to blame the unions , to argue that they must know perfectly well that the effect of excessive wage settlements is inflationary but that they nevertheless still seek and get them .
20 Erm that they should know where they 're going to go .
21 I 've always felt that he ought to know how I 'm feeling — to realise that I 've got problems too .
22 She knew that he was finding out from her what he needed to know testing her ; and that he must know surely that she allowed this , understood that it was happening .
23 She realized that he must know exactly what was running through her mind .
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