Example sentences of "that [pers pn] know [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings .
2 Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice .
3 I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’
4 ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax .
5 I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it .
6 ‘ And when you see Bellybutton , tell him that I know where his brother is , and I 'll pick the bastard up whenever I choose and then feed him head first into a cane-shredder . ’
7 ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’
8 I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’
9 When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " .
10 I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . "
11 I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention .
12 ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are .
13 You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time .
14 That I know how but I bought it
15 I tell yer , Joe , I ai n't too partial to that cove , and nor ai n't I 'appy that 'e knows where I live .
16 She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it .
17 So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her .
18 She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats .
19 She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it .
20 She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk .
21 He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends .
22 She told herself , now again , that she knew how to handle Papa .
23 At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it .
24 After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both .
25 Now that she knew how despicable Robert Sheldrake was , she would fight him with every method at her disposal .
26 She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them .
27 Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy — if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption .
28 After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’
29 Just enough to make sure Okay , maybe not a difficult as that one was , just enough really to make sure that you knew how to do the calculations .
30 The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to .
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