Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] know [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 2 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 3 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 4 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 5 | Any species that I know I could n't provide the proper conditions for . |
| 6 | She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop . |
| 7 | Fran shook her head , easier now that she knew they would n't be there alone . |
| 8 | It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 10 | It was all there , the passion and the glory and inflamed rush of feeling that she knew she would always have for him . |
| 11 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 12 | Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she could n't read . |
| 13 | Constance promised that she would , but she was so afraid of the outcome that she knew she could n't , not until she and Ludovico had been married and she was beyond her mother 's power . |
| 14 | She gave a dark scowl , left the room and trudged downstairs , her mood so prickly that she knew it would only need one wrong word from Julius to trigger off her own temper . |
| 15 | DAALNY HAD discarded at once her anger and her pleading as soon as the choice was made , and made in such a fashion that she knew it could not be changed . |
| 16 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 17 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 18 | It said something that she knew he 'd never put in words . |
| 19 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the same when you dream about people doing things that you know they 'd never do in real life . ’ |
| 21 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 22 | They were prepared to compromise because they I 'm sure that you know you ca n't imagine them not being really but because they 're such erm they were outraged at this machine but they were prepared to give it a try but the way it was bulldozed through that once the machine was there there was no choice then and almost you know get going boys get more and more and more slate you know greed they felt the employer was being greedy at the expense of quality . |
| 23 | You now have the choice to equip your kitchen , whether modern or traditional , with a gas cooker packed with so many benefits , that we know you would previously only have found in cookers that cost far more . |
| 24 | It was strange music , full of strange sounds that he knew he could n't hope to understand . |
| 25 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 26 | anything he can find that he knows he should n't be doing like pulling things out the freezer and then the fridge and and pulling the cooker door down and |