Example sentences of "he know [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran slipped the catch on the door , then paused , holding her hand out to him , determined to let him know that this was the finish of their ‘ relationship ’ . |
| 2 | And even if it was n't too personal , did she really want him to know that some wee devil of tenderness pulled at her heart at the grey lines of weariness etched into his face ? |
| 3 | Did n't he know that millions of women worked ? |
| 4 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |
| 5 | How does he know that this is how things must be ? |
| 6 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 7 | Not for nothing was he known as Windy — when upset he really did ‘ blow his top ’ but his bark was worse than his bite — he was an excellent teacher and took both Standards Six and Seven . |
| 8 | Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) . |
| 9 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
| 10 | Sam wondered what Mr Harker would say if he knew that one of his relatives was so keen to disrupt the cotton industry . |
| 11 | Apparently he got to hear about a particularly tricky deal prepared by three Japanese whaling companies to come with quota proposals , and he knew that one of the companies was taking a very different view from the other two , and he hoped that there could be a divide-and-rule situation set up . |
| 12 | Every time he drove the big Volvo along those crowded motorways he knew that one random police check , one brush with another car , one moment of inattention would have a blue-capped officer leaning in his window , wondering why he wore a wig and a false moustache . |
| 13 | From long experience he knew that one of the roads to problem solving was to allow time for the sub-conscious mind to operate . |
| 14 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 15 | Having worked closely with many dealers to form his own collection , he knew that good dealers had incredible knowledge and connoisseurship . |
| 16 | Then Sharpe saw the far crops being trampled flat and he knew that each patch of collapsing rye betrayed the advance of a French column . |
| 17 | But , even as he did so , he knew that such a small sign would almost certainly be missed . |
| 18 | He had never felt like that himself towards any woman , but he knew that such a feeling must be love . |
| 19 | Dad was still convinced I was trying to be something — a lawyer , I 'd told him recently , because even he knew that that doctor stuff was a wind-up . |
| 20 | He had returned once to Granard — to bury his widowed mother beside her husband in the hillside cemetery — and he knew that that would certainly be his last visit to the place of his birth . |
| 21 | He knew that that was one of the reasons why he went to see George Birkitt first on his back-stage round at the ‘ half ’ . |
| 22 | Lord John had behaved badly this night , but he knew that all could be repaired , all won , and all made good , and all for a girl of winsome , heart-breaking beauty . |
| 23 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 24 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 25 | He knew that four of them would n't come for anything he might have done . |
| 26 | He knew that this would disturb Archbishop Fisher , which he did not wish to do . |
| 27 | He knew that this tunnel-like place was shunned by tramps and feared even by drunks and peg-sellers . |
| 28 | But he knew that this was not actually so , not really the case . |
| 29 | He knew that this particular pony would test that weakness and so would help Evelyn to learn to correct her problem . |
| 30 | He knew that this sometimes happens . |