Example sentences of "[noun sg] he know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the seas settled a little , and a boat came , carrying a crew he recognised and a Skyeman he knew well , but who would not meet his eye . |
| 2 | Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English . |
| 3 | ‘ … he said that a girl he knew once used to do it while in a handstand position . |
| 4 | Health care will then be denied its proper role and that is clearly seen in the discharge of elderly people into the community and a point he knows well because he 's heard it from me before , without the necessary disabled facilities being in place for those elderly people and it is his department that decided to put the disabled facilities grant in the basic credit allowance to compete against over local authority priorities in that section . |
| 5 | Perhaps on another occasion , in another mood , he would have been more sympathetically disposed towards it , but at the moment it seemed merely the repetition , however well-prepared , of a diet he knew only too well . |
| 6 | A sound he knew too well . |
| 7 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 8 | As on the last occasion , he had chosen County Monaghan which was an area he knew well and adjacent to the Ulster border . |
| 9 | A woman he knew well before he began his affair with Marje . |
| 10 | towards the wound he knew best . |
| 11 | The man he knew only as Hamid was one of the two-man London cell . |
| 12 | McPhee ( 48 ) told the trial that he had given the dog away to a man he knew vaguely outside the track as Shiloh was no use to him . |
| 13 | He was n't sure why he did ; it was partly curiosity , they were a different species about whose life he knew almost nothing . |
| 14 | Because Peter was already an experienced golfer he knew just how he should stand , how he should hold the club , what sort of swing was required and how hard to hit the ball . |
| 15 | It was a technique he employed when grilling a suspect he knew well . |
| 16 | After studying the small lake he knew instinctively that if there was a fish it was in this pool . |
| 17 | Because of course he knew perfectly well that the promptings of his own nature were an offence to his mother 's moral code . |
| 18 | I can discuss things about the bike and because of his experience he knows immediately what I mean . |
| 19 | The linguistics part he knew already , the English he could pick up on his own and the sociology bored him . |
| 20 | It was a rifle in pristine condition , still greasy from the packing case and with the heavy , cold distinctive smell he knew so well . |
| 21 | At the Kynoch family 's invitation , Mr D'Silva joined the board as chief executive with a mandate to move the company out of textiles and into the field he knew best medical devices . |
| 22 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 23 | Her mouth set in a stubborn line he knew so well . |
| 24 | From sketching the outfits she made to inventing designs of his own was but a short step and by the time he left High School he knew exactly what he wanted to do . |
| 25 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
| 26 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 27 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 28 | In his Politics he knew just enough to make sense of their institutions within the context of his classification . |
| 29 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 30 | Part of it was nerves and excitement , he knew , but at this stage he knew nearly everything there was to know about the girl . |