Example sentences of "[that] [pron] know [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 2 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 3 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 4 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 5 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 6 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |
| 7 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 8 | All that I know so far — at least , all that is worth telling here — is that there are a number of different glycoproteins of a variety of molecular weights , on both pre- and postsynaptic sides of the membrane , involved in the response to training on the bead . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 10 | But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
| 12 | That was indeed something that she knew all too well , but she was n't particularly flattered to have it spelt out to her quite so categorically . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you say that you knew pretty well everyone who was at that meeting , sir ? ’ |
| 15 | He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are . ’ |
| 16 | He says : ‘ It 's when something like that happens that you know just how important children are in a relationship . ’ |
| 17 | First choose a state of mind , a feeling that you know particularly well . |
| 18 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 19 | If you know the difference between guitar sounds that you hear on the radio then I would maintain that you know too much |
| 20 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 21 | The entrance charges also ensure that we know exactly how many people visit these Gardens . |
| 22 | That we know so much today is due to the dedication and persistence of Hedwige Boesch-Achermann and zoologist Christophe Boesch . |
| 23 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem dealing with Iranian or Lebanese Shi'ite terrorists is that we know comparatively little about them . |
| 25 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 26 | Indeed , the most potent argument against it may be that we know only too well how protectionism contributed to the great depression of the 1930s . |
| 27 | Sometimes I think both genes are used , sometimes only one , not the other , and I 'm not sure that anybody knows exactly how , how and why that works out but erm |
| 28 | That loved my friend ; and that they know full well |
| 29 | When they say to you ‘ oh well , you know , surely you do n't mind a little bit of flirtation and so on ’ I think very often that 's an entirely mendacious reply , that they know perfectly well what you 're talking about when you talk about sexual harassment , and in the context of discussions in the SCR or over dinner , they simply do n't want to have to deal with it and so they will dismiss it by way of saying ‘ well , you know , I 'm only being chivalrous , or this is the way I was brought up ’ . |
| 30 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |