Example sentences of "and [conj] i know " in BNC.

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1 With a new class I want the pupils to feel that I am in control and that I know what I 'm doing .
2 I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ‘ easy ’ I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension .
3 ‘ It is not my story , ’ said Raynor , speaking slowly now , ‘ and although I know it , the Cruithin will know the whole . ’
4 But up to your right , where the estuary flows into the sea , that 's Mr Swinton 's land and although I know no harm in him myself , they say — they say he does n't like trespassers , Miss Alexandra .
5 Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’
6 Do n't forget , I have lived here three months , and although I know the family to be close-fisted there can not have been much more than that . ’
7 Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form
8 Same when I 'm , when I 'm in Italy , I , I ca n't speak Italian very well , but when I 'm there a week , I pick up words very quickly and although I know my grammar is n't perfect , I can form sentences in a way that people do understand me , .
9 Michael O'Neil knows what the score is now better than any of us here , and if I know Michael , he 'll be arguing with St Peter at the gate and be telling him in his best Superintendent manner that celestial security is not what it was - if they let people like him in ! ’
10 ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill .
11 And if I know her she 'll go on trading on it .
12 That poor girl has been through a terrible ordeal , and if I know anything of gipsies , it 's not over for her yet . ’
13 Everything is very different now , there are new considerations , and until I know exactly what is going on you 're not going to draw me on the subject . ’
14 Erm and and I know you I 'm not expecting you to comment on your colleagues , but let me quote something else that Peter Lilley said , The massive expansion of the welfare state since the war , has not been accompanied by any diminution of social problems .
15 Because that 's what it feels like today , he wrote , and because I know in my heart of hearts that it will feel like that tomorrow as well .
16 I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us .
17 And because I know I ca n't finish it , there 's a good chance I wo n't start it .
18 And tho' I know the smooth curve of your naked shoulders , right now , and now it 's right , you are wearing a moth-mauve shirt and a chic built-up soap-opera heroine jacket .
19 And since I know what the proposition means , I must know each constituent of it .
20 There have been times when I felt that our family was disintegrating , and while I know that more than one in three marriages fails , that does not make watching your own children admit their unhappiness any easier for them or for you .
21 And while I know streams are said to chuckle , ’ remarked Lydia acidly , ‘ they do n't go like this — Har Har Har . ’
22 ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering .
23 Often I can get sidetracked and spend too long on the wards and before I know it , it 's late afternoon .
24 Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity …
25 But we 'll ask you to select which one you 're going to go for , and as I know we 've got a room full of gentlemen , let's start with the ladies first .
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