Example sentences of "[noun] and i knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived . |
| 2 | Well , Richard and I knew the Duke and Duchess of Windsor quite well , and spent a lot of time with them in Paris , and this was our favourite piece of jewellery . |
| 3 | I 'd done my apprenticeship and I knew I could do a good job . ’ |
| 4 | One look at Meadowbrook and I knew he was hopeless for us . |
| 5 | I watched Alexander whore , drink , lecher and toady to your Edward and I knew that I was a better man . |
| 6 | The brothers had not been told , only Radulfus , Prior Robert , Hugh and I knew of it , leaving out of consideration Cynric 's boy , who runs errands faithfully , but barely understands what he delivers , and forgets his embassage as soon as done and rewarded . |
| 7 | I heard the pounding of rapid footsteps and I knew straight away that it was n't a policeman ( they wear rubber soles these days ) and then somebody yelled , ‘ Hey , you ! ’ |
| 8 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 9 | Yet it was a dream and I knew that dreams never last . |
| 10 | You were just a child and I knew there was nothing serious between you . ’ |
| 11 | So he finally they made him port captain for for Cunard and I knew him . |
| 12 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 13 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 14 | And then that other was a member of parliament and I knew it 's erm I knew he , I think it was erm oh I can see him stood up there . |
| 15 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 16 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a real killer — you lose all your contacts and I knew it would be desperately difficult to come back , ’ he says . |
| 18 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 19 | The boy was back in three days and I knew by his face he had momentous news . |
| 20 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 21 | Marx , at No. 13 with Take This Heart , admitted : ‘ I decided to cancel the show because it was pouring with rain and I knew I could be electrocuted . |
| 22 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 23 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 24 | The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken . |
| 25 | But it suddenly took a flier and I knew I was in trouble . |
| 26 | the poison in the water and I knew |
| 27 | The person was a friend and I knew she was a healer — although , as you will have realised , I had little idea what a healer was or did . |
| 28 | Only the abbot and I knew , though he may have felt that he must tell Prior Robert . ’ |
| 29 | I saw the look the malai doctors gave each other and I knew then he would never see again . |
| 30 | His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John . |