Example sentences of "known it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 2 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 3 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 4 | Entries this year were slightly down , but you would n't have known it during the week preceding the start . |
| 5 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 6 | We ought to have known it from the moment Mrs Thatcher was made a member of the Order of Merit , one of the top 24 in the land . |
| 7 | She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain . |