Example sentences of "[Wh det] i know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 2 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 3 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 4 | I shall press on however , for this pamphlet is the best exposition of which I know of what I believe to be a widely held position . |
| 5 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 6 | My first rod is used to cast to within a yard or two of a predetermined spot ; a spot which I know from past experience is a productive one . |
| 7 | I have learned what I know with them . |
| 8 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 10 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 11 | What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you 've set out to achieve , and that way there 's no hassle . |
| 12 | Erm it it does n't er er a from what I know of the the Swindon one , five thousand pounds seems very fair . |
| 13 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 14 | I imagine , from what I know of life in Bom Jesus , that she probably thought of herself as fraca ( physically weak ) or fraca de juízo ( mentally weak ) and prone to ataque de nervos ( nervous attacks ) . |
| 15 | ‘ That just does n't tie in with what I know of you , the way you feel about your mother and your brothers . ’ |
| 16 | From what I know of gipsies she 'd never make an official complaint even if we caught up with her . |
| 17 | ‘ What I know of it , Herr Wolff-Dietrich . |
| 18 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 19 | Erm I think that those are erm er disadvantages with which any er possible location in Harrogate er District would start and I do n't think the assessment in Mr 's paper er accurately reflects either the criterion in the structure plan er in terms of assimilation , or indeed the nature of the landscape erm and what I know of it in the Harrogate District . |
| 20 | Well this is what I know of her but if you really have to Well I 'm no Granny ! |
| 21 | Will he convey to the Prime Minister what I know to be the view of the three party leaders who represent Northern Ireland in the House — that we are endeavouring diligently to meet the wishes that he expressed at the Downing street meeting on 11 February ? |
| 22 | As I understand things , and I work from what I know to what I do n't know anyone ordained an elder following these guidelines is recognised as an elder within the United Reform Church and within the Presbyterian Church of Wales . |
| 23 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 24 | I guess … because Galileo did it , or at least if what I know about him is true , this must be true . |
| 25 | But what I know about you is n't really very uplifting , is it ? |
| 26 | What I know about ‘ la piste ’ could be engraved on the side of a nose shield . |
| 27 | Before I describe the trial of Justine Moritz , I must set down what I know about Frankenstein , in the hope of clarifying my mind . |
| 28 | ‘ In fact , what I know about children could be written on the back of a postage stamp . |
| 29 | and I told you that from the minute he sat down and he started playing , I 'm a card shark , nobody tells me what I know about bloody cards |
| 30 | What I know about palaeotology is n't too much I mean I obviously have to try and know a bit , but it 's not my field — erm in order to test the minor claim , you have to be able to get your hands on some rock which actually consists of continuous sedimentation over long periods of time . |