Example sentences of "know [Wh det] it [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 2 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 3 | When she opens her eyes , I do n't know what it is that she sees . |
| 4 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 5 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 6 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |