Example sentences of "[noun] knew the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 2 | Corbett knew the King loved his luxury , and Woodstock , a large , timbered building , was the pleasantest of royal palaces . |
| 3 | Ranulf had bruises and cuts on his hands , arms and legs but one of the others , a young man , had received a terrible slash across his stomach and Corbett knew the fellow would be dead very soon . |
| 4 | This difference can not be attributed to more enlightened guessing when subjects knew the title because recall of words closely related to the title and of words not closely related to the title was equally improved . |
| 5 | Given that not all subjects knew the junctions well previously this is not very surprising . |
| 6 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
| 7 | Frankie knew the drill . |
| 8 | John Laing Construction andn John Laing Services … the gantry manufacturers Secalt and Tirfor plus the consulting engineering partenrship Flint and Neil knew the gantry was dangerous before the accident and breached regulations under the Health and Safety Act . |
| 9 | Even though the defendant knew the names and addresses of all customers , the quality of contact was not of the degree required in order to establish that he was ever regarded as " being the business " or even had any influence over the customers . |
| 10 | These were faithfully reported in the press a few days later so that readers knew the position of every member of the Cabinet . |
| 11 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 12 | If only the adviser knew the answer . |
| 13 | if you leave them in the pile fair enough and I think they can go to archive , but please can you re-title the contents page and the pages cos they 're not interview data it 's count data , er I would of thought by now Scott knew the difference between interview and account |
| 14 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 15 | The count suddenly stiffened , his midnight-black eyes narrowing to glittering points of light , and Maggie knew the game was up . |
| 16 | Springfield knew the flame of Grant 's life was flickering dangerously low , and that time was short . |
| 17 | It stated that he had seen an advertisement in the papers asking for designs for the redevelopment of the whole area between Downing Street and Great George Street , yet Hall knew the Cabinet had decided against this large scheme and that only the purchase of the Fludyer Street area would be completed . |
| 18 | Though Ronni knew the remark was hollow . |
| 19 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
| 20 | Public sector negotiators knew the consequences if they went over that limit , though in practice the Treasury might relent a little with groups like nurses and fund part of the extra settlement . |
| 21 | Tonight Craig Cook 's parents said the council knew the wall was unsafe but did nothing about it . |
| 22 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 23 | Mr Hudson knew the box intimately and had known Aubrey Clark well . |
| 24 | ‘ Johnny Giles knew the game inside out and could motivate players . |
| 25 | Sharpe knew the panic could not be controlled here , where the French columns filled the air with menace , but perhaps the sturdy walls of Gemioncourt would give these gunners some necessary reassurance . |
| 26 | The Government might fool the British public by denying the atrocity stories , but the Army in Ireland knew the truth , the newspapers knew , the people knew . |
| 27 | He was dressed casually in narrow white trousers and a white short-sleeved shirt and Ruth knew the shirt would be silk . |
| 28 | Because she had spent much of that day watching her mother supervise preparations for the traditional Gio ceremony observed by the family on each anniversary of her great-grandfather 's death , Lan knew the altar held all the favourite foods and beverages that the high-ranking courtier had enjoyed during his lifetime . |
| 29 | Good companies knew the value of training and built in funding for that to their budgets ; those that did not should have to pay a levy . |
| 30 | Yeremi knew the catechism of the Imperial Cult by heart ; and that was the rock of his faith — a faith to the effect that far beyond Trazior hive , and far beyond Necromunda and its bilious sun , was one who watched divinely from afar , one who had already rescued the galaxy from terrible strife , and whose incomprehensible mind surveyed and sifted , ever vigilant , the terrible redemptory Godfather of All . |