Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told Joan de Warenne I would return in May , Edward thought — I little knew then that such calamity and change of fortune would summon me hither ! |
| 2 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 3 | I think I already knew then that I would not return to my job at the Polytechnic , for the security of that monthly cheque had lost all meaning . |
| 4 | I soon knew so much they could not deny me any longer ! |
| 5 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 6 | I also knew then that seeing the film at a matinee on a weekday was an illicit pleasure for her . |
| 7 | I also knew better than to seek him out . |
| 8 | I think it is fair to say that hard words were spoken , but I never knew exactly what was said . |
| 9 | I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not his next of kin , you see , and I never knew exactly where he lived . |
| 11 | I knew you came from North but I never knew exactly where from . |
| 12 | She lost all sense of direction and , ‘ I never knew quite where Raynor took me , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 13 | Why not just call you back and tell you what they told me ? — what you obviously knew all along , that there 's no hope at all of looking at secret files . ’ |
| 14 | Her mouth twisting , she suddenly knew exactly what that something else was . |
| 15 | But Ven , who must be feeling drained from his labours , had just stated that he would be ready to discuss the interview soon — she somehow knew then that she was not going to get a better offer from him than that . |
| 16 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 17 | The look in his eyes was cool and lofty , she saw , and she just knew then that he was thinking that there were some Sundays when Travis breakfasted at someone else 's table — and he knew exactly where ! |
| 18 | Returning to the Cherry House , she discovered what , deep down , she always knew anyway : that ‘ home is always with you , it does n't matter if you 're moving about . |
| 19 | She always knew exactly who was in and who was missing ; and if you were missing , Madame probably knew why , and with whom . |
| 20 | She probably knew too that they had been none too fond of Granny when she 'd been alive . |
| 21 | Prior knowledge ranged from seven of the subjects who previously knew all 40 of the junctions down to one subject who previously knew just six , the mean number known was 29.6 . |
| 22 | Amabel , who never knew even approximately what time it was , looked puzzled for a moment , waiting for someone to tell her . |
| 23 | We still knew very little about them . |
| 24 | Towards Røst the sea was a silver reflector , whilst the sky darkened , an Arctic trick we now knew well . |
| 25 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 26 | No indeed , one never knew quite what to expect from the gentry . |
| 27 | To see whether individual subjects performed differently on those junctions which they personally knew well a recognition measure for each subject on each junction was calculated . |
| 28 | Though they were confined to the hut by day and the cell by night they soon knew far too much about the camp . |
| 29 | Yet they still knew too much , possessed superior pace and hit harder than a North side containing more heart than hope . |
| 30 | Alternatively it could be that all subjects perform differently on junctions they previously knew well compared to those they did not know well . |