Example sentences of "know [pron] real " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 2 | Once this trip was over she would let him know her real reason for taking this job with Woodline Design , then she would say goodbye . |
| 3 | The truth is that most Thai-Chinese business empires are so complex that no outsider , including bankers and minority shareholders , can ever know their real state of health . |
| 4 | He does n't even know their real names . |
| 5 | She did not know his real name , and did not ask either Madge or Mr Mortimer , both of whom had already taken him home , what it was . |
| 6 | You do n't know his real name , or anything about him . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I called him Inky , but now I would like to know his real name . ’ |
| 8 | I rose from my knees to know what real prayer was . ’ |
| 9 | Do you know your real bra size ? |
| 10 | Once you know his real name , would it make any of us any happier ? ’ |
| 11 | They all know what real life is — only too well . |
| 12 | She told me this when I was very small , so I 've always known my real mother did n't just give me away . ’ |
| 13 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 14 | In 1980 , Jack already knew the family secret but he had never known his real father , not even his name , and since June was no longer around to confirm Donald Rose 's story , having died of cancer in 1965 , his version of events remains a mere matter of record . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd known your real name I might have found out that you were Ryan 's partner , might n't I ? |
| 16 | We did n't know blacks , yet were always sure that we knew their real interests and what they were thinking ! |
| 17 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 18 | — For Manjiku was under a curse , you know — ( Serafine is talking softly , very softly. ) — Only a woman who knew what real loving is could undo its power . |
| 19 | They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him . |