Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 2 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 3 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 4 | This was her way of thanks — the only way , perhaps , that she knew in the pitiful misery of her life . |
| 5 | This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town . |
| 6 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 7 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
| 8 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 9 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 10 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 11 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 12 | Dexter rather liked it but he knew from the indifferent look on Blanche 's face that she did not : she was very classic in her tastes . |
| 13 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 14 | ‘ Just as long as she knows about the increased risk of her baby getting gastroenteritis with bottle-feeding … ’ |
| 15 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 16 | The aspiration after this effect is very ancient , as we know from the Greek derivation common to both ‘ epigram ’ and ‘ epitaph ’ . |
| 17 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 18 | They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin . |
| 19 | Gabriel looked for his parents — even though he knew by the local accents that he was far , far away from his own countryside . |
| 20 | It was a shock to one taxi driver , even though he knows about the new law . |