Example sentences of "[pron] know was " in BNC.

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1 Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked .
2 This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye .
3 All I knew was that the more I ate , the more I hated myself and my body , and the more depressed and despairing I felt of ever being back ‘ in control ’ .
4 I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty .
5 The Elsie I knew was a very bright girl , very self-assured , very confident , very capable , very … ’
6 I reached for The Mayor of Casterbridge which I knew was somewhere in the bed .
7 I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again .
8 A little Gibraltarian girl with pneumonia in both lungs , was not responding to the May and Baker Lung resection I knew was in progress .
9 He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at .
10 I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it .
11 So I had stuff which I knew was good , but that did n't quite fit the group because the tunes needed to be more orchestrated .
12 During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game .
13 ‘ Did you know she 's a Catholic ? ’ he asked me as though it really mattered , and he gestured with his cigarette at a crucifix that hung over the narrow bed , which I knew was there solely for sentimental purposes because it had belonged to Ellen 's dead father , but to McIllvanney it was a challenge .
14 After a lot of bad feeling , the next thing I knew was Rosenberg , the producer , was on the set every day and Brando was arguing about every scene with him instead of me .
15 She seemed to consider the proposal favourably and Princess Margaret , who I knew was keen on the idea , was supportive .
16 I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp .
17 The first I knew was a call from your old chum Roy Bliss not ten minutes ago . ’
18 All I knew was that my life was intolerable and that the only way not to be destroyed by it , or by ‘ them ’ as I called the adult , authoritative world , was to reject them and everything they stood for .
19 All I knew was pain . ’
20 The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry .
21 The next thing I knew was Gwenellen , shaking me violently .
22 He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent .
23 The endearment eased the expression of pain on his face a little , but still he held me and still he searched my eyes for something I knew was n't there .
24 It seemed that there was some , because his face , which I knew was not handsome , with its thin nose and high , bony forehead and small mouth , had still some special quality for me which an unbiased analysis of the features could n't explain .
25 All I knew was that I felt married to him .
26 I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing .
27 All I knew was that I must keep him out of sight until Herbert returned .
28 All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) .
29 All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate .
30 I think the only body that I knew was er an old man McDonald , you called him , was a pack man at that time .
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