Example sentences of "[conj] know [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that there is nothing to put in — so please , if you have some news , or know something interesting about a member ( that can be published without attracting litigation ) let the editor know . |
| 2 | And the more people that know what good work we do the better . |
| 3 | Use the following imperial Units : inch , foot , yard , mile ; ounce , pound ; pint , gallon ; and know their approximate metric equivalents , i.e. that 3 feet is about equal to 1 metre , 5 miles is about 8 kilometres , 2 lb is about 1 kilogram , 1 gallon is about 4½ litres . |
| 4 | MI5 agent : able to read your counterparts ' innermost thoughts and know their hidden agenda . |
| 5 | test me and know my anxious thoughts . |
| 6 | The meaning of a text can not , in fact , be derived only by ‘ decoding written words and knowing their linguistic characteristics ’ , as Stubbs points out ( 1980 , p. 15 ) . |
| 7 | Rachel faced him across that beautiful living-room and knew her sensual lover had gone forever . |
| 8 | So she seemed to have recognised the corpse and knew his christian name . |
| 9 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 10 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 11 | Meredith kept herself as rigid as possible , but knew her whole body was singing with his . |
| 12 | Rain accepted this but knew his other reason was to check on the box beneath the floorboards . |
| 13 | I am entitled to an apology from Mrs Rogers for her defamatory letter , but knowing her erratic behaviour , through the pages of the News , I need n't hold my breath . |
| 14 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |