Example sentences of "it knows [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
| 2 | A Service department may take the risk of including an important project in its list , not because it believes it has a low priority , but because it knows it would be politically awkward for the party in power to consider cutting it . |
| 3 | Desire and reason do not make good bed-mates , for where reason tries to control the world , desire is aware of the vastness of life , which it knows it can never control . |
| 4 | But it knows it will only be a matter of time before unions have to become involved . |
| 5 | To be sure , the USSR will not initiate a war it knows it will lose , but as the political stakes mount , so will the risks she is prepared to take . |
| 6 | It knows it 's between four and three kilom kilometres away . |
| 7 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 8 | GE NUP DIMU The sorrow that overtakes the child in the womb when it knows it will be born dead |
| 9 | The only animal that can afford to relax is the cockroach because it knows it will survive the Nuclear War , and there will be plenty of space after that . |
| 10 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |
| 11 | perhaps it knows it 's gon na get eat |
| 12 | It must have telescopic eyesight and be extremely sensitive to vibration because it is off as soon as it knows you are coming . |