Example sentences of "he know [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’ |
| 2 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 3 | Had he known or not ? |
| 4 | Had Canon Wheeler not known , or had he known and not passed on the information ? |
| 5 | As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 6 | He always stayed close when they were approaching a service station , because he knew that sooner or later , they 'd have to stop for fuel . |
| 7 | He knew that sooner or later , the flood would come , even if the sinful people around him did n't believe in that , or in anything else which God had said . |
| 8 | The only one he knew that well was Rosie , who had cousins in it , brothers maybe , although she never talked of it except in the most general terms . |
| 9 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 10 | She made for the study door and he wanted to say , ‘ I would n't if I were you ; he 's in a tear about something , ’ but he knew that even if he did speak it would n't deter her . |
| 11 | Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart . |
| 12 | Dimly , he knew that somewhere inside him was the power to reach it . |
| 13 | He remembered his wife mentioning to him that some immigrants had moved into the street , and , because he knew that neither Donna nor Mrs Stych would bother to call on immigrants , he felt vaguely sorry for the newcomers ' isolation . |
| 14 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 15 | He knew that wherever an unoccupied land surface was formed , by fire , landslip , the filling in of a bog , or human activity , plants moved in to colonize the area . |
| 16 | At Amis 's stage of existence , the options were narrowing fast and he knew that out of all the possibilities , wonderful was hardly the most likely . |
| 17 | Things changed , he knew that now , after a lifetime of denying it , but certain things — intrinsic things — remained a constant , for all men at all times . |
| 18 | He knew that now , and was proud of it . |
| 19 | He knew that only a very good fighter — a much better fighter than he was could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw . |
| 20 | He knew that only a few not very helpful smudges had been found after Mary Connon 's prints , taken from the dead woman 's fingers at the post-mortem , had been eliminated . |
| 21 | He knew that as far as his mother was concerned it was like painting fairground panels , it was like keeping whippets . |
| 22 | Without being told , he knew that as fast as the payments were made into five Swiss bank accounts , the money was transferred into five different accounts — the numbers of which were known only to Adam . |
| 23 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 24 | They were nearly home now and he knew that once inside the house , she would dose the front door symbolically on all that had happened . |
| 25 | He knew that basically he had enjoyed the careful battle of wits . |
| 26 | Anselm told him , in only formally polite language , that he knew as well as the legate what needed to be done . |
| 27 | And of course he knew as well that the Admiral had been stirring it . |
| 28 | He knew as well as any of them that there was no such document . |
| 29 | Other things he knew as well , and meant to look out for . |
| 30 | he saw from the start that Piggy was a clever boy with many qualities , and he did not care about what Piggy looked like , but he knew as well that Piggy was evil like the rest of them . |