Example sentences of "know what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 2 | In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’ |
| 3 | The Seattle Seahawks know what it is like following their game in October . |
| 4 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 5 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 6 | Today we know what it is to be ‘ professionalized ’ , experts at our job . |
| 7 | I do n't know if you know what it is to work every day as if your life depended on it , to work until you feel you are going to bust a gut , until you want to cry or howl at yourself because your own body is so stubborn . |
| 8 | ‘ D'yeh know what it is , Myles . |
| 9 | ‘ D'ye know what it is , ’ he growled , ‘ a few years in the army would do some of those boyos a power of good . |
| 10 | Keep a sample of the plant or seed that you suspect , even if you think you know what it is — and especially if you do n't . |
| 11 | I know what it is , ’ I screamed at them . |
| 12 | If two of the family are chatting about something special , perhaps they could do it another time or alternatively make absolutely sure that you know what it is all about . |
| 13 | I think I know what it is , but I can hardly believe it . ’ |
| 14 | I was always doing landscapes outside ; so I know what it is to be working out in the field in December at six o'clock in the morning . |
| 15 | I know what it is to lose one dearly loved . ’ |
| 16 | We are able to forgive because we know what it is to be forgiven , and the love of God shed abroad in our heart gives us a new capacity to do so . |
| 17 | Men and women both know what it is to wake in the night and find fierce emotions pounding within them — desire or rage that is not allowed such free rein during the day . |
| 18 | I know what it is , it 's like Erewhon : that 's ‘ nowhere ’ backwards . ’ |
| 19 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 20 | As someone who came from a happy , steady home , she might be able to offer help in some small way to some of these disadvantaged youngsters , a few of whom hardly know what it is to be loved at all . |
| 21 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 22 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 23 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 24 | I know what it is now . |
| 25 | We all know what it is ( apparently ) . |
| 26 | A duty is something black and white : once we know what it is that a body has a duty to do and what it actually did , we can say either that the authority has performed its duty or that it has not . |
| 27 | Again , women well know what it is like to be treated as children and they find it offensive . |
| 28 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 29 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 30 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |