Example sentences of "know [prep] an [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 2 | He had known from an early age that Jamel , as the older brother , would take over as leader of Zimbala once their father died . |
| 3 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 4 | But at the end of it all she left the stage to applause loud enough to rock the rafters , knowing with an angry certainty that she 'd failed . |
| 5 | Desperately she pressed on but she knew with an awful certainty that he would vanish before she got there . |
| 6 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |
| 7 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 8 | Jess heard and knew in an absent way that he was speaking to her , but all her attention was on Captain Meredith , framed in the doorway of the inn . |
| 9 | George knew at an early age that he would like to pursue a career in engineering . |