Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] know [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 2 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 3 | She did n't want to see him although she knew perfectly well that he would have to be faced . |
| 4 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 5 | First , the defendant might argue that he believed in the victim 's consent since she permitted penetration although he knew full well that she had no understanding of the act . |
| 6 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 7 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 8 | And I know perfectly well that there 's no way that er I could get my wife to move out of the town , she loves it . |
| 9 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 10 | In our family my cousins and I knew well beforehand because there were always slightly older sisters and cousins who told us … |
| 11 | I heard the pounding of rapid footsteps and I knew straight away that it was n't a policeman ( they wear rubber soles these days ) and then somebody yelled , ‘ Hey , you ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And Jean-Paul can be as stubborn as a mule , and you knew perfectly well that if you 'd told him what you felt , he would have dug in his heels and insisted . ’ |
| 13 | And you know right away when you hear a Chicago blues song and you know if it 's a New Orleans song . |
| 14 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 15 | And you know as well as I do Jim was n't the father . |
| 16 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 17 | ‘ And you know very well that once you are gone Miss Araminta will throw me out of the house . ’ |
| 18 | Cambridgeshire roads , and you know very well that they they do n't compare to Lincolnshire roads , County boundary . |
| 19 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 20 | This was the last thing she had envisaged and she knew full well that if the rumours had reached her ears there was a very good chance he too would have heard them . |
| 21 | She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish . |
| 22 | She wanted to leave Alain 's mother with the very best impression and she knew perfectly well that if she sat with Alain there would be only brooding silence . |
| 23 | She had been tense since she had arrived and she knew perfectly well where all the tension was coming from — el conde ! |
| 24 | But those , those Environmental Health Officers who go into committee , and we know very well that you have to put your argument in a particular way or put your point a particular way , in which you want to convince people . |
| 25 | And they knew full well that they did n't really need the three thousand apprentices but those large firms trained no no note my word , for the country 's needs , not the company 's needs ! |
| 26 | And they knew perfectly well when the connections had been made . |
| 27 | They know that , unless I am very fortunate , the only chance I 'll have to catch them is the moment in which they take the ransom , and they know equally well that you wo n't risk your daughter 's life by telling me where that 's going to happen . |
| 28 | But they could not be sure of winning and they know perfectly well that Mr Mitterrand has no reason to dissolve parliament so long as there is even a small risk that his party might lose . |
| 29 | You know , and I feel , I do feel very angry , I mean th th the family that she 's referring to who ca n't , who have difficulty hav getting transport for Sunday morning , they 're not parishioners , but are actually in the parish , and they know perfectly well that if they ask they will get transport , and indeed in the past they have asked , and they have got transport . |
| 30 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |