Example sentences of "knowing [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but basically you , you would be going in to a village to , to try and encourage land reform with this document or knowing that this document existed . |
| 2 | The signalman , knowing that this train had been in his section for some time and was overdue , set his points and signal from the up main to the up goods loop to allow the up passenger train , following the goods , to run past without any unnecessary delay . |
| 3 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 4 | Not because she could n't remember , but because it was such a long time since she 'd seen her and she felt strange , suddenly , knowing that this time tomorrow they would be on their way to Scotland and she would be waiting for them . |
| 5 | The amount of work required to obtain this information may be inferred from knowing that this project will run for 9 years and cost 100 million US dollars . |
| 6 | But Jarvis 's greatest pleasure came from knowing that this line , whose builders had had to work in compressed air because of the high water-table in downtown San Francisco , passed through the rock under the deepest bay in the world . |
| 7 | While Hitler and Mussolini , on the one side , and Stalin on the other sent military assistance , Britain and France refused aid to the beleaguered Government in the name of ‘ non-intervention ’ , knowing that this policy favoured the rebels . |
| 8 | I want them to leave here , knowing that this prison is well run and that its inmates are being adequately dealt with . |