Example sentences of "know [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you . |
| 2 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 3 | We know that on the night you were born , the sidh 's music was heard . ’ |
| 4 | I know that as the younger by a year or two I looked up to Andrew ; after all I was an inexperienced young man from a small prairie town , while Andrew had been to Europe ! |
| 5 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 6 | The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned . |
| 7 | And they know about what 's happening to them , and know that at the end of the day , it does n't matter about what their behaviour is , it does n't matter about what happens to them , because nobody cares . |
| 8 | A freeze on the number of police officers , but we know that through the review of the police ranking system , that the Home Secretary has said that will mean a considerable number , and I think the figure of two thousand was mentioned , extra officers will be back on the beat . |
| 9 | While Labour proposes to weaken or dismantle them , we know that for the safety of our citizens they must be continued , and the police effort against terrorism must be reinforced . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 11 | ‘ Every time I see those grey faces being trundled through Cas. on accident trolleys heaped with grey blankets , and know that under the blankets are mangled , bloody , and road-filthy bodies , I start shaking . |
| 12 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits . |
| 14 | I am prepared to wait if I know that in the end he 'll be let in , but in the meantime I just want them to allow my children to attend school . |
| 15 | ( I know that in the |
| 16 | I know that in the mundane , the thought of never having been understood or recognised rankles ; but the transcendent joy is the greater and I get instead the hidden flowers of sorrow of my own soul with their scent and their beauty . |
| 17 | But Ted Hudson and other signalmen like him know that in the early hours of a winter 's morning a visitation from Aubrey Clark 's ghost is a real and frightening possibility . |
| 18 | Retailers know that in the current economic climate , the Northern Ireland economy is a good bet , with its low house prices , low mortgages , relatively high disposable incomes and a public sector cushion pumping in nearly half of the GNP . |
| 19 | No I 've I mean , I know that in the primary schools nowadays they do allow , or do let the ki the children actually write their own reports as well . |
| 20 | It 's in their hands at the moment er as far as I know they are going to let us know that in the very near future , certainly long before the ballot papers are actually distributed to members . |
| 21 | I know that in the past I would not have had the confidence to let children work on the problem . |
| 22 | We know that in the eleventh century the Jurassic Way in Oxfordshire was the main road to Northampton , probably joining it with the important town of Gloucester , and throughout the Middle Ages it was a market-road , linking one market town with the next in a long series . |
| 23 | Er on the sand at Grimness Now there 's hardly any sand there then , you had difficulty finding a patch , not not like where you 've the huge area now at the Barrier And so er I I I know that in the Hope they had a bigger one , and I believe in the Wyvell area they had one as well , you see ? |
| 24 | All of us who represent Welsh constituencies know that in the general election the Conservatives will lose their seats there . |
| 25 | And of course , we know that in the spiritual sense the task of Jesus in rescuing you and I , in rescuing men and women , it was not an easy thing . |
| 26 | But Mr if you know that in the real world ordinary people will often rely on statements in a brochure like this , do n't you agree ? , that 's the object of it |
| 27 | The truth is they 're rushing through the debate because they know that in the budget the next month , the chancellor will announce further defence cuts . |
| 28 | No that stuff you know that in the green tin that we had before will do . |
| 29 | Well we know that in our company by the jobs lost , we know that in the Midland region because it could be a loss of up to ten percent of our membership , six thousand members . |
| 30 | I know that in the county there is a new erm Chief Education Officer erm |