Example sentences of "we [verb] know " in BNC.
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1 | For the British at large , Czechoslovakia , compared with some of the others , was a not too far-off country of which we did know something : that distinctive spelling , those operas . |
2 | However this convenient explanation of his style bore no relation to what we did know about O's past life with other men . |
3 | We did know that , at least . |
4 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
5 | ‘ We did know , ’ said Bobbie . |
6 | ‘ And we did know , ’ said Dierdriu , her face haggard and old now . |
7 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
8 | We did know . |
9 | we did know somebody erm down on actually who had a a vertical blind and several of the chains had broken or disappeared on the bottom of that |
10 | But we did know it Eric . |
11 | What we do know , however , is that we are seeing a green patch , and our experience has a particular , qualitative — indeed paintable — character . |
12 | ‘ I think what we do know is this . |
13 | But she went on : ‘ This we do know — and dare not forget . |
14 | One fact we do know about this versitile act is that 1148 ( Penarth ) ATC each year provide tremendous help with the branch Wings Appeal . |
15 | ( Actually we do know , perfectly well . |
16 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
17 | We do know what came from Marx in The Origin because we possess Marx 's notes on some of the anthropological works he examined , and these notes contain passages later incorporated into Engels 's book . |
18 | We do know what Jack 's views were of the Christian and sexual morality : ‘ There is no getting away from it : the Christian rule is ‘ Either marriage , with complete faithfulness to your partner , or else total abstinence . ’ |
19 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
20 | ‘ But we do know Yorkshire well . |
21 | But we do know that while the votes were being counted Her Indoors was in the company of a notorious Tory wet and dissident . |
22 | Accurate figures for the number of animals caught in these remote freezing areas are hard to collect , but those we do know show the situation to be alarming . |
23 | We do know that , if it had been an idea seriously mooted , they drew back . |
24 | However , we do know they were married on September 10th. 1662 by Mr. Samuel Clark . |
25 | However , we do know that whilst Margaret was lodging in Aldersgate , Richard was staying not very far away , with a friend , in Little Britain . |
26 | The traces of these appendages are preserved in exceptional circumstances , so we do know that trilobites had walking legs gills , antennae , and the bases of the legs modified into primitive jaws in some species . |
27 | Yet we do know , now , that the world 's waters are the world 's essential regulators : of global temperature , and of the chemistry of the atmosphere — which is nothing like so invariable as we might like to suppose . |
28 | We do know , too , that the reef regularly suffers enormous damage from hurricanes ; and yet it recovers . |
29 | And one thing we do know from the work of really scientific psychologists — those of the behaviorist school — is that frustration creates an aggressive response , anger . |
30 | But we do know enough to be able to pick out some clear changes , and continuities too , by tracing particular themes . |