Example sentences of "knew he [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he transferred the blade clumsily to his left hand , he knew he would n't make it . |
| 2 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 3 | With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments . |
| 4 | But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish . |
| 5 | If it meant interrogating Wheeler , he knew he could not do it . |
| 6 | However , he knew he could not leave her now . |
| 7 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 8 | For the most fleeting of moments , she knew humiliation , but then anger surged , and an aching triumph with it because she knew he could not deny her . |
| 9 | ‘ He knew he could n't do it in Barcelona , so perhaps that 's why he took drugs . |
| 10 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 11 | Laidlaw 's hand was on his P220 automatic but he knew he could n't fire it , no matter how hard he tried . |
| 12 | He desperately wished he could glance at his watch , but knew he could n't risk it ; it was late … it must be sometime around ten . |
| 13 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |