Example sentences of "know that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Did you know that in the Soviet cities every citizen has been provided with a gas mask ? ’ |
2 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
3 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
4 | No I 've I mean , I know that in the primary schools nowadays they do allow , or do let the ki the children actually write their own reports as well . |
5 | But Ted Hudson and other signalmen like him know that in the early hours of a winter 's morning a visitation from Aubrey Clark 's ghost is a real and frightening possibility . |
6 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
7 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
8 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
9 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
10 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |