Example sentences of "what [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |
| 2 | It was a case of being 24 and not knowing what I know now . ’ |
| 3 | Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job . |
| 4 | ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a case of what I know now … . |
| 6 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 7 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 8 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 10 | Do you imagine that I could forgive and forget , knowing what I know now , or that any of you could meet my eye , knowing what you do ? |
| 11 | I went mad , he said well accidents happen , I said not with my fucking dad they do n't not to my dad I said I 'll tell you what Mr if I 'd have known then what I know now I would n't even let you operate , I would n't Joy I would have said leave him alone , I wished he 'd have died when the |
| 12 | That 's what he said , if I 'd known what I know now , he said I would n't of paid it ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I know so far . |
| 14 | get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is |
| 15 | So for success in the seventy fifth I say to any volunteer who asks me , do what you always do , stick to your tried and tested methods because that 's what you know best . |
| 16 | if , if , that is the situation that you are saying now , from what you know now , |
| 17 | The artist , especially if he has only one specimen to work from and can not therefore generalize , must paint what he sees ; the greatest of artists in this line will , however , agree with Josef Wolf that ‘ we see distinctly only what we know thoroughly ’ , a maxim he adapted from Goethe . |
| 18 | The latter is the type nearest to what we know today . |
| 19 | Three , four years ago the seeds of what we know today as desktop publishing were being sown by companies like Xerox , Interleaf , Sun and Apollo . |
| 20 | We 'll have to wait before we can be absolutely certain of the time and manner of death , but from what we know already , it looks , yet again , as if any of those old buggers could have done it . ’ |
| 21 | There is no doubt that it contains a remarkably comprehensive account of what we know now about the weather and its causes in these islands , including what can be done with satellite observations . |
| 22 | The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ . |
| 23 | We could have crossed the Red Sea a lot earlier if we had known then what we know now . |
| 24 | ‘ Based on what we know so far , I think it 's the husband . ’ |
| 25 | good , that ties in with , you know , what we know actually happens in real life . |
| 26 | What we know less about is why some people expend energy in short bursts while others sustain much longer bursts . |
| 27 | What we know less about is the pain of the families left behind in the ‘ Old Country ’ who have to watch the young people leave . |
| 28 | The wear on horses ' teeth from thirty thousand years ago clearly shows signs commensurate with what we know as crib-biting and confirms that they were domesticated even then . |
| 29 | Do they draw what they know rather than what they see ? |
| 30 | In general , what people find most stimulating and most attractive is a bit different but not too different from what they know already . |