Example sentences of "know [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the highest in the land know all the time about the other side of Anthony Blunt — knight of the realm , art historian and Keeper of the Royal Pictures ? |
| 2 | So that perhaps all I have done in twenty-five years is to find out something which I have known all the time . |
| 3 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 4 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 5 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 6 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 7 | Plodding around in the dark hoping you might stumble over something , and knowing all the time that half a dozen people could throw the light-switch if they wanted to . |
| 8 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 9 | Watching the spectacle , one has the weird sensation that the actors really knew all the time that their professions were illusory , and that there was a kind of gigantic tacit conspiracy to pretend . |
| 10 | ‘ So I have to fail all my GCSEs so I can find out what you knew all the time ? ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps Eve knew all the time , maybe she had been in the shop when Mother was buying all this … all this horrible stuff . |
| 12 | ‘ You knew all the time , did n't you , that he was Venetian ? ’ |
| 13 | This standard is tested not by an end-of-year exam but by adding the classwork marks throughout the year , so the child knows all the time how he is getting on . |