Example sentences of "know they can [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At least you know they can do it ! |
| 2 | For she was one of those born failures as a disciplinarian , one of those teachers whose classes know they can do anything they want . |
| 3 | ‘ Now we know they can go in and do a job . |
| 4 | They know they can rely on me , you see . |
| 5 | But they also know they can give you at least a bit of a chance . ’ |
| 6 | And you always ask for information you know they can give you . |
| 7 | Look , you know they can give you brain diseases , do n't you . |
| 8 | You know they can make the designs with |
| 9 | I know they can said Tim . |
| 10 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 11 | They can read , we know they can read ! |
| 12 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
| 13 | If they find the stimulus too strong they know they can reduce it . |
| 14 | Children are very quick to spot this and will take advantage of the situation — and once they know they can get away with anything , you will lose their respect . |
| 15 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 16 | If they know they can get special deals . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why they 're having such a hard time with trying to privatise the Health Service is because the British public actually feel they own it , they feel a part of it , they feel it 's theirs , they know where the hospitals are , they know they can get treatment and they do n't abuse it . |
| 18 | All the sporting figures who appear on the programme — and they include most major stars — know they can trust Coleman and that he will not embarrass them . |
| 19 | they know they can say what they want up there and get away with it |
| 20 | Not least in America , where else , where companies know they can pick and choose among executives desperate to work again . |
| 21 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 22 | ‘ This is because , from the public 's point of view , if a company they are thinking of employing by Safe-Buy UK , they know they can proceed with a home improvement with extra reassurance and avoid things going badly or expensively wrong . |
| 23 | We know they can play this game but the defence is shocking . |
| 24 | For many people there is a temptation to sift through the urgent and important in-trays again looking for the work which they know they can deal with quickly and easily . |