Example sentences of "know that [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should also know that we consulted with your Corps commander this morning , ’ the Frenchman said , ‘ and he ordered that we should be given every possible assistance . ’ |
| 2 | As for resources , the hon. Lady will know that we spent about £3 billion on the health service in Scotland last year , which is more than £600 per head for every man , woman and child in the country and represents an increase of about 38 per cent . |
| 3 | Well do I know that we drove you into flight . |
| 4 | Two years ago I did n't know that we had an immune system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By the way , Uncle , ’ she added , ‘ how did you know that we 'd gone in ? |
| 7 | They 'd never know that we 'd been and gone . |
| 8 | I do n't know why I became her friend , but I do know that we got on very well , + rarely ‘ fell out ’ . |
| 9 | We may not have been able to stop the legislation ( although we did succeed in reducing its scope ) , but we let the world know that we remained strong and proud and shameless . |
| 10 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 11 | Balor would at once know that they had outwitted Inchbad and Goibniu . |
| 12 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 13 | By the gardens , in the corner , they made er parts but I mean I 've never been in , in the factory , in their factory , but I do know that they made erm things for the motor industry . |
| 14 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 15 | But we do know that they reached a high , technology-free civilization , practised a sophisticated form of navigation , and ranged over the entire Pacific in ocean-going outriggers . |
| 16 | I did n't know that they produced according to peak |
| 17 | She took the opportunity despite the fact that many of her colleagues let her know that they judged her disloyal . |
| 18 | Did you know that they exiled me — me ! |
| 19 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 20 | Anyone who had read Hans Christian Andersen 's ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ would know that they did not and could not — not unless they married a mortal , as with Lúthien . |
| 21 | Do n't know that they did any , Victorian |
| 22 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 29 | That way she could buy a little warmth and cheer for Christmas and how would he ever know that she had lied ? |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |