Sentence examples for knowing it on from inspiring English sources

In Victorian England, there were doubtless no young gentlemen whose great expectations derived from secret funds sent by convicts who had been transported to Australia many years earlier, but Dickens's vision of a society whose top ranks rested, without knowing it, on the labor of the very bottom one was poetically exactly right.

Without them, the balance of nature will be changed, with potentially significant impact on agriculture and forestry, which have always depended — almost without knowing it — on the role of insectivorous bats.

Hence this little essay, in this morning's WaPo.... My life as a communist actually began without me knowing it, on Friday evening, when Glenn Beck spent his program explaining about a "communistic" conspiracy that included 10 groups in America.

I'd been trained without even knowing it on how to respond to the police; saying "Yes, officer," and "No, officer," and offering only the information that was requested, and then only if they had a right to ask for it and I didn't have a right refuse.

I am a busy man with a good life and yet, without even knowing it, on a couple of occasions I have caught myself going down a path of cruising toward later life with the assumption that I have less energy and therefore will do less.

Gen. Andrew Cuomo's investigation will try to determine why the timetable for paying the bonuses was moved up to December from its normal period in January; who knew about the bonuses; and how Merrill could justify spending billions of dollars on bonuses knowing it was on the brink of reporting a multibillion-dollar loss for the quarter, a person familiar with the probe said.

It is still one of my favorite pieces, and I love knowing it can take on a whole new color and look in just an afternoon.

In those, says the letter, the frequency of suicidal behaviour was higher in patients on Seroxat than those who, without knowing it, were on a placebo.

Without knowing it, solely on instinct, Mann violated the halo rule by swinging her stick close to Richardson's head.

(With the exception of "Family Guy". Oh, why did we let our children start inhaling from that sewer pipe of a cartoon? I feel dirty simply knowing it's on somewhere in the house. End of parenthetical father rant).

In fact, as the Times points out, since dictionary-makers use sources like the Times to determine how words are used (ie, what they mean), the Supreme Court is, probably without knowing it, relying on the Times.