Example sentences of "that he know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 2 | Now that he knew where he was the details of the room became familiar , and he knew at once what had wakened him , and strained his ears to hear it again . |
| 3 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
| 4 | After they ordered , Wickham toyed with a table knife and told her that he knew where the ones which had been sent to her and Tavett had come from . |
| 5 | In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature . |
| 6 | He was sprawled in an armchair opposite and the expression on his face clearly told her that he knew exactly what she and Jennifer had been discussing . |
| 7 | Small wonder , then , that the Scotsman Sir George Douglas burst out , as the English ambassador Sir Ralph Sadler reported to Henry VIII on 13 October 1543 , that ‘ the world is so full of falsehood , that he knew not whom he might trust ! ’ . |
| 8 | He realised that he knew even less about the father than the son . |
| 9 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
| 10 | For on the tenth day he sent forward another deputation under the flag of truce to declare that he knew well of the shortages in the beleaguered town and that they would soon be in desperate straits . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't deny him the right to use whatever symbols he wants as an artist , but as a friend I was disappointed that he knew how inflammatory that would be to a Madness audience . |
| 12 | Slightly bemused , she realised that the businesslike urgency appeared to be entirely on her side , in spite of the earlier impression that he knew how busy she must be , that he had no wish to waste any of her valuable time … |
| 13 | To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership . |
| 14 | Huy knew something about papyrus , having spent most of his life writing on it , and had managed to convince the man that he knew how to make it , without giving away too much of his true background . |
| 15 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 16 | The way Matthew treats the Marcan source does not suggest that he knew more about the events concerned because he was an Apostle . |
| 17 | He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter . |
| 18 | He had told the legate in 1095 that he knew very well what needed to be done , but that he had no power to do what was necessary without the king 's aid and consent . |
| 19 | There was a silence of a sort that he knew very well . |
| 20 | And what you are telling me is that he knew very well Aldhelm was to come here that night . |
| 21 | Rick felt that he knew very little about practical mathematics apart from ‘ making a scale drawing of the minibus and taking kids out to measure the rugby pitch ’ and even less about investigations and problem-solving . |
| 22 | She had the feeling that he knew very well what a struggle was going on beneath her words — and that he was amused by it . |
| 23 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 24 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 25 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 26 | The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there . |
| 27 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 28 | The amiable West Indian realized that the man who served up the frothy coffee was not looking at his watch in order to see what time it was but more to indicate that he knew damned well what time it was — late , too late . |
| 29 | He replied that he knew damn all about it but would swear it was . |
| 30 | THAT self-preserver extraordinary , Saddam Hussein , has once again shown that he knows when and how to cut his losses . |