Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 2 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 3 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 4 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 5 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 6 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 7 | What I do know is that , faced with cancer , the desire for solitude was somewhat tempered . |
| 8 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 9 | What I do know is that The Da completely missed the point , as usual . |
| 10 | What I do know is that whatever Mario says ( ‘ I do n't think he was too unhappy about it ’ ) or Colin thought ( ‘ The atmosphere within the team was the happiest I can remember ’ ) , that was not the way Ronnie saw it . |
| 11 | ‘ What I do know is that the scale of success we could be embarking upon far out-strips anything I experienced at Liverpool . |
| 12 | What I do know is that all you people are here because the Fascists have given the list of your names to our headquarters . ’ |
| 13 | is basically what I do know . |
| 14 | What I do know we 'll , we 'll to get everyone in . |
| 15 | What I do know is that there are thousands and thousands of people out there for whom life is intolerable , roughly ten a day actually succeed in killing themselves , how many more have a go we do n't know . |
| 16 | What I do know 's probably distorted , as you told me once in London . |
| 17 | Your Royal Highness , Mr Chairman , Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen , I am not absolutely sure whether this microphone system will work if I stand what I do know is , however , that I would be a larger target for you and under the circumstance I will , if I may remain seated . |
| 18 | the , you know to cool off what I do know before time , I woke up er phew the you know |
| 19 | I gather she either does n't know very much about Uncle Adam or does n't care very much about what she does know . ’ |
| 20 | And perhaps what she does know wo n't help me , anyway . |
| 21 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 22 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 23 | Motherly but firm , ignorant but insistent on communicating what she did know , she was an excellent teacher for the lower forms . |
| 24 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 25 | Start with what you DO know — nobody understands everything ! |
| 26 | What you do know is that it has caused you considerable hurt and pain . |
| 27 | Work out what you do know . |
| 28 | You wo n't remember them after if you do n't look at them for a week but when you come to look at them the night before you 'll be surprised what you do know . |
| 29 | What we do know , however , is that we are seeing a green patch , and our experience has a particular , qualitative — indeed paintable — character . |
| 30 | ‘ I think what we do know is this . |