Example sentences of "[pron] know from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My experience at The Dorchester and what I know from the Four Seasons Inn on the Park ( Four Seasons recently acquired the Regent Group ) , shows me that there is a market which appreciates the best service and is prepared to pay £200 a night and more for it . ’ |
| 2 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 4 | I knew from the thick fragrance that filled the air that it was Mrs. Constantine . |
| 5 | Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er |
| 6 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 7 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 8 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 9 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 10 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 11 | The abbey church of St Ricquier , built in the 790s , had galleries in its apses , and choir screens round the area of some of its altars , with the idea ( as we know from the ritual order of its Abbot Angilbert ) of dividing the monks ' and boys ' choirs ; the building must have echoed to the sound of these choirs as they answered each other antiphonally from different parts of it . |
| 12 | We know from the signed statement of the Secretary of State for Transport withdrawing the ‘ explosive device ’ certificate of public interest immunity , and would in any event have assumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary , that ‘ the Ministry of Defence retain the documents relating to Dr. Hayes ' work in respect of the Lockerbie air disaster . ’ |
| 13 | The aspiration after this effect is very ancient , as we know from the Greek derivation common to both ‘ epigram ’ and ‘ epitaph ’ . |
| 14 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 15 | Dexter rather liked it but he knew from the indifferent look on Blanche 's face that she did not : she was very classic in her tastes . |
| 16 | They were heavy , as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin . |