Example sentences of "know what it be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making .
2 It would have been invaluable to know what it was they really wanted from their association with the Ping Tiao .
3 He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered .
4 and I 'd want to know what it was you were going to shed .
5 We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’
6 You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find !
7 And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them .
8 I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me
9 The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him .
10 Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did .
11 Cos I know what it is myself with I mean , they 're different ages but , and they 're independent but it 's wearing .
12 You know what it is I bet they 're pruning in the field
13 As long as know what it is I 'll do it when I get home .
14 And if you could pop in there , you know what it is I 'm
15 But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’
16 If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’
17 ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth .
18 Since he had caught sight of the Summoner , he had not liked to watch the resettlers pouring through into Utah , knowing what it was they were really following .
19 She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him .
20 ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted .
21 Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried .
22 Now I knew what it was I had then only felt …
23 ‘ When I was in India , I thought then I knew what it was I might believe in .
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