Example sentences of "[noun] i knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 2 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 3 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |
| 4 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 5 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 6 | Before I reached my window I knew full well the terrible sight which surely awaited me . |
| 7 | When I visited Estella 's London home , I found she had gone to stay with Miss Havisham , and so , leaving Magwitch in Herbert 's care , I went by coach to the town I knew so well . |
| 8 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 9 | Robin I knew well . |
| 10 | A little fluttery , but positively macho beside the Queen of the Frocks I knew so well . |
| 11 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 12 | Most of the other passengers I knew only vaguely , by face more than by name . |
| 13 | It was a man I knew quite well . |
| 14 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 15 | The opportunity class teachers I knew either had some extra training and/or some special quality or flair . |
| 16 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 17 | Long John began to sing that song I knew so well : |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a lovely evening , my dear Watson , ’ said a voice I knew well . |
| 19 | The men I knew just did n't give their wives presents for no reason . |
| 20 | Yet she was the only sane grown-up I knew now that I could cross Anwar and Jeeta off my list of normals . |
| 21 | For example , when I began researching into social aspects of book reading I knew very little at all about publishing or bookselling and my experience of libraries was mainly limited to being a user of them . |
| 22 | They were a totally different set of people from the ones I knew before . |
| 23 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 24 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 25 | At that time I knew very little about Montaigne : but Eliot had come to him through Shakespeare and the influences upon Shakespeare ( who must have read the Apologie de Raymond Sebond ) ; and , as he said in his essay on Pascal , Montaigne 's outlook is the only credible alternative to that of belief . |
| 26 | I mean your face I knew straight out . |
| 27 | Now , Michael Bolton was from my town , Newhaven , and this guy I knew just knew him , and he says , ‘ Michael , I got this kid I 'm thinking of managing ; tell me what you think of him . ’ |