Example sentences of "know [conj] it had " in BNC.

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1 She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later .
2 How would it know that it had to lose weight ?
3 Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank .
4 Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ?
5 So you do n't know whether it had just been built and
6 And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but
7 You know if it had been in
8 ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’
9 She had n't known if it had been changed — it was unlikely — but if nothing else it would help to gain him admittance .
10 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes .
11 Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real .
12 He chose Touche Ross because he knew that it had a tie-up with Tohmatsu , the biggest accountancy firm in Japan .
13 If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline .
14 Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all .
15 She knew that it had not gone unremarked …
16 Now he knew that it had been a diversion , designed to hold his gaze so that he would be disadvantaged in his dealings with her .
17 She looked back at Nuadu and knew that it had to work .
18 On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August .
19 He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light .
20 Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them .
21 But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me .
22 I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’
23 Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not .
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