Example sentences of "know that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years ago I did n't know that we had an immune system . |
| 2 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 3 | Balor would at once know that they had outwitted Inchbad and Goibniu . |
| 4 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 5 | Sadly , Crystal would never know that there had been a joke at their expense too . |
| 6 | Then , John said , he would know that she had been arrested because she had forgotten her pass , which all blacks had to carry , and would automatically telephone his father to go and fetch her from prison . |
| 7 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
| 8 | Knox J. held that the defendant was not entitled to rely on a plea of non est factum on the ground that the mother did not know that she had been appointed attorney and that the transaction was a sale within the power of attorney . |
| 9 | He subsequently abandoned the forgery allegation and amended his counterclaim to plead ( i ) non est factum on the grounds that Mrs. Steed did not know that she had been appointed attorney and was not aware that she was signing a transfer of the property ; and ( ii ) that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 10 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 11 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 12 | That way she could buy a little warmth and cheer for Christmas and how would he ever know that she had lied ? |
| 13 | ‘ Little did she know that she had just landed one of the world 's greatest exponents of ‘ leap before you look ’ as a buyer , or she 'd probably have persuaded you to buy London Bridge and a stake in a Peruvian gold-mine at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | Of course ; he did n't know that she had stood there in the darkness and listened to the proofs of his betrayal . |
| 15 | Would he know that she had failed him ? |
| 16 | Now he would know that she had rushed out of the solar , half dressed , to find him . |
| 17 | But erm they did let her know that she had n't got it instead of making her wait the four weeks or whatever it was |
| 18 | ‘ I did not know that you had bought her a ring today , until we came back , ’ she said . |
| 19 | She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later . |
| 20 | How would it know that it had to lose weight ? |
| 21 | And Eliot lets us know that he had to argue with Pound , who wanted in some items that Eliot excluded , and wanted out some items on which Eliot insisted . |
| 22 | Did this man know that he had ruined our game , our happiness , everything we held dear ? |
| 23 | If there should be trees out there , swaying in the wind , then he would know that he had lost all sense of time and place and personal identity . |
| 24 | Then he deliberately looked back to meet her eyes so that she would know that he had made a decision With a slight lift of his shoulders , he accepted his decision . |
| 25 | Allow , say , an hour at the scene , and with luck he would be home again before Nell woke and she need never know that he had been away . |
| 26 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 27 | Did he mean to let Ned know that he had not found her up to scratch and then , after so much humiliation , deliver her over to the Dallams ? |
| 28 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 29 | Nor could anyone know that he had reservations ; that he did n't feel as we all did , treading that ground . |
| 30 | He let Turgenev know that he had enjoyed his Sportsman 's Sketches , but his interest in them probably derived from his love of hunting rather than from the fact that the stories cast aspersions on serfdom . |