Example sentences of "they knew the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them were ready to die , but all of them knew the odds stacked against them . |
| 2 | Both of them knew the layout of the house , and they had planned their movements in exhaustive detail . |
| 3 | They heard them talking , and were sure that they knew the voice of the visitor . |
| 4 | Well the agent , that be either or any agent who , who the ship belonged to , see they 'd , they 'd get through , no doubt they 'd get through to the merchants and er they 'd find out who the agent is and once they knew the agents well it was plain sailing was n't it ? |
| 5 | They knew the owners , the well-to-do , the grandees back from Jamaica and Bengal who sat here now behind tall walls and drew their rents . |
| 6 | They knew the plan : they were the emperor 's men : that sufficed . |
| 7 | They knew the limits . ’ |
| 8 | The victims would resist more if they knew the limits of ill-treatment to which they might be subjected . |
| 9 | This confused the Girls ' uncomplicated minds as they knew the couple were still living together . |
| 10 | Oh well they they knew the road , these men knew knew the road very well , and er they knew the |
| 11 | Esmund Falkes , prosecuting , said when detectives showed Yousefi stills from videos filmed inside the Royal Bank of Scotland , Darlington , he agreed it was him , but staff said they knew the man as Garawand . |
| 12 | The only real hiccup was that the local DHSS would not assess my benefits until I had moved in , and social services were not prepared to finalise the amount of their commitment until they knew the DHSS 's ! |
| 13 | But they had no follow-up written , and they knew the public would be perfectly happy if they just disappeared , leaving behind this one camp masterpiece , and nothing afterwards to spoil it . |
| 14 | I asked if they knew the way to the Sanctum . |
| 15 | The old landlords were gentlemen , at least , they knew the courtesies , crooked and greedy as they were . |
| 16 | We 've had tons of letters — you know the sort of thing : people who say they knew the originals of the characters in Cotton Town , people who say he said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 17 | They knew the licensees . |
| 18 | They knew the odds were against them . |
| 19 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 20 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 21 | They knew the interests of the peasants better than the peasants themselves . |
| 22 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 23 | They were professionals , they knew the rules of the game . |
| 24 | Attlee and his ministers , despite being a radically intentioned government , did not embark on a reform of the Civil Service because they knew the wartime machine personally and liked what they saw . |
| 25 | They knew the secret of the parson 's enthusiasm . |
| 26 | So either they knew only the uncontaminated documents , which did nothing to strengthen what they believed to be an already strong case , or they knew the documents in their contaminated form , but knew also that they were forged , and kept quiet about them . |
| 27 | To myself it 's a matter of well my first reaction was to ask the C I D if they knew the situation between o of , that was my first response actually to when the phone call came in , but I knew very little about . |
| 28 | But F B I agents are now hinting they knew the fire might happen . |
| 29 | They knew the words of all these protest songs by heart . |
| 30 | They knew the words of all the songs , the plots of every story , the intricacies of every movement and rhythm . |