Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would take Josh and Kathy , go to cosy , comfortable London , where she knew so many people , and there she would sort out her life . |
| 2 | Rent a nice little flat somewhere where you know exactly what your outgoings are — where you know you 're not responsible for anything . |
| 3 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 4 | And they come round and sweep up outside or you know near enough every day . |
| 5 | You know or f or or you know always it was that they were men cos they came from during the strike . |
| 6 | But mastering any chemical theory first without practical experience can leave the student in a state where he or she knows so much about the sodium atom that he can no longer appreciate the silvery metal that behaves so spectacularly on the bench . |
| 7 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 8 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 9 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 10 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 11 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 12 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 13 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 14 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 15 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 16 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 17 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 19 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 20 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 21 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |
| 22 | But the energy was still there , we know full well , that there 's other MPs there , I think it 's thirty seven we 've got and we , the only one that I know well is Gerald Kaufman . |
| 23 | In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game . |
| 24 | N do n't know that I know just the whisky barrels they were , a little I believe there was maybe a name for them . |
| 25 | Do n't forget that I know exactly what you 're capable of ! ’ |
| 26 | That I know already . ' ’ |
| 27 | Although I am sure that these remarks will apply to all constituencies in the north of Ireland , I can judge only what is happening in the one that I know best , which is my own , where 3,344 houses have been deemed ’ unfit ’ , as the Minister confirmed to me in a written answer in 1988 . |
| 28 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 29 | All that I know so far — at least , all that is worth telling here — is that there are a number of different glycoproteins of a variety of molecular weights , on both pre- and postsynaptic sides of the membrane , involved in the response to training on the bead . |
| 30 | He said in a letter to shareholders : ‘ I believe that I know better than anyone what makes Amstrad operate and what needs to be done in order to secure its future . |