Example sentences of "know [adv] [Wh det] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haines , 50 , should certainly know exactly what it takes to run a multi-million-pound industry , having climbed through the ranks to become chairman of the United Sugar Merchants Association . |
| 2 | Anyway , to the issue of the C65 which I have been hearing a lot about recently , but still do n't know exactly what it does . |
| 3 | I do n't know exactly what it was but he started really working hard at school . |
| 4 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 5 | I do n't know exactly what it was , but er er it was potted meat sandwiches er and tea . |
| 6 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 7 | Very very erm suggestive metaphor although I do n't know exactly what it 's extraordinary one , erm erm erm , the , perhaps we should begin to step back a second here , to think about how we normally individuate things . |
| 8 | I mean there , do we have any , do we have a view , do , does anybody know exactly what it is ? |
| 9 | Do you a do you know exactly what it 's going to cost you ? |
| 10 | The exception to this is the police , who have had by far the largest addition to that , they have n't lost money when they lost S S A , erm , we have been ge , extremely generous to them , far more than to any other committee this year , erm , and although we have n't given them money for , to pay awards because we do n't know exactly what it is . |
| 11 | But if we are going to meet expectations of clients then really we have to know exactly what it is the client needs and would be happy with . |
| 12 | And it 's , it 's difficult for us to tell because we do n't have that many regional studies to be able to know exactly what it was that was determining these differences of values . |
| 13 | Now , to what extent could one move in that direction using a computer , which is a rather precise and definite sort of object that wants to know exactly what it has to do and how it has to do it ? |
| 14 | Spilling the knots from one 's entrails out onto paper is n't likely to make a poem or story that others will want to read , but many writers do have to go through the ‘ spilling ’ process in order to know just what it is they have to hammer into shape . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 16 | America has to know precisely what it wants to achieve in Bosnia — not just , vaguely , an end to the horror . |
| 17 | ‘ Gently , you do not know yet what it is . |
| 18 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 19 | I ca n't see your face when you sit in that comer , ’ said Bella. ‘ — You thought the world of that Simon , did n't you ? — I know just what it 's like . |
| 20 | Designed by women who know exactly what it 's like to be pregnant . |
| 21 | ‘ Okay , Robert , I know exactly what it 's all about . |
| 22 | But even by Stella 's reckoning there are a lot of people who know exactly what it is like to be out of work and with little hope of finding a job . |
| 23 | Well no because unless they put the system in and know exactly what it was there are so many different ways of delivering water . |
| 24 | We may sometimes hear merely a fragment of a melody , yet we know immediately what it is , where it comes from . |
| 25 | Few of the business-men and politicians who get excited about it know quite what it means , but they know what they do not like . |
| 26 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 27 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 28 | This question can not be answered without knowing just what it is that a manager does . |
| 29 | But also , as a doctor , she knew exactly what it was . |
| 30 | If he could ever be granted one wish in his life , he knew exactly what it would be . |