Example sentences of "knows they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every family with a young man knows they may lose him to the war , and they are as furious about it as a swarm of bees . |
| 2 | He knows they have been defeated because they have offended God in some serious way , and become the victims of his anger . |
| 3 | Because everyone knows they have a direct channel of communication to the Palace , their ear is sought . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone in the Thames Valley knows they disappear , ’ Doone nodded . |
| 5 | ‘ But everyone knows they 're hopelessly unreliable . ’ |
| 6 | No one knows they exist . ’ |
| 7 | He knows they can all play well or badly — and they can all be beaten . |
| 8 | The Treasury always knows they can win . |
| 9 | But no-one knows they 've had a row , |
| 10 | It 's implicit from their staging that the band knows they 're nothing to look at , and they were smart enough to create a slide show that transfixes the audience . |
| 11 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 12 | The local pub throws a race night before the event and on the day everyone knows they have a particular task to perform to ensure the race is a success . |
| 13 | He can be hugely intelligent when he thinks they can be of assistance to him , but most of the time he knows they 're a poorish and raffish lot , living off their own enthusiasms and frustrations . |
| 14 | And every Delta employee knows they 're an important part of the team by the end of their training . |
| 15 | Hoccleve knows they still remember ; he still hears them talking about him . |
| 16 | ‘ It gets particularly fraught when one of them does n't come home and the other knows they have a new partner . ’ |
| 17 | Gerd regards any intrusion here as evidence that the adventurers are hostile , and he wo n't co-operate any further if he knows they have forced their way in here . |
| 18 | Yet everyone knows they were shot and killed . |
| 19 | God knows they have trouble enough so IBM would appreciate it if we were perfectly clear on a couple of points that came up a fortnight ago ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 20 | He does n't understand futures , but he knows they 're bad news . |
| 21 | However , since central government in Britain is the dominant influence upon the availability of local finance , there is a certain political duplicity here in legislation which requires local agencies to provide benefits that the centre knows they are unlikely to be able to affords . |
| 22 | Xorandor does n't laugh at people , he goes along with them at their level , telling them what he knows they want to hear . |
| 23 | ‘ God knows they need help . |
| 24 | She knows they must have been overheard , thought Greg . |
| 25 | As certain as he thinks ‘ my rights ’ and puts out his hand to strike in defence of them , he knows they 're none of his . |
| 26 | Looking at John , he knows they will . |
| 27 | The shot was supplied by Chris Baldwin who thinks the observer was Tony Buxton , does not know who the green-fingered pilot was , but knows they both survived . |
| 28 | If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’ |
| 29 | The crosses will have to go and the widow knows they break regulations . |
| 30 | He was surprised to be chosen to do the gates , but he knows they will work out right . |