Example sentences of "know was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was trying to say my Lord was that I did n't know was associated or was associated at that time . |
| 2 | And he thought the battery you know was running down but in fact it was n't |
| 3 | James — ‘ Deaf ’ Burke , or the ‘ Deaf 'Un ’ as he was generally known was born in Westminster , London on 8th December 1809 , and became orphaned in early childhood . |
| 4 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 5 | She was breathing heavily , as if just the strain of knowing was wearing her out , exhausting her physically . |
| 6 | One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere . |
| 7 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 8 | There were hand-outs on ‘ Cruelty Free ’ cosmetics , positively promoting cosmetic companies who did not drip shampoo into rabbits ' eyes in what I knew was called the Draize Test for irritancy . |
| 9 | During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game . |
| 10 | But it was different when someone you knew was involved . |
| 11 | I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever . |
| 12 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 13 | ‘ Then I was shocked to discover someone I knew was running the place . |
| 14 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 15 | He rested on the water waiting for what he knew was going to happen . |
| 16 | Then she was closing her eyes in an agony of resistance , as if making that hand invisible could prevent what she knew was going to happen . |
| 17 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 18 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 21 | Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming . |
| 22 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 23 | I knew was coming . |
| 24 | Commented Aileen Collins retrospectively , ‘ … our study of literature in no way reflected what we knew was happening in the world … ( we aspired ) to let in new voices , and essentially to jolt Canadians from their lethargy and narrow-mindedness . |
| 25 | As relations between Edward II and Charles IV of France deteriorated in April 1324 , Queen Isabella was urged to use her influence with the French monarch by asking him to ‘ have regard for us and our children who are so close to him , and for the alliances between them , and especially for the alliance made in our own person , which all the world knows was concluded to nourish and sustain peace and love between the two kingdoms , and to prevent wars and disputes ’ . |