Example sentences of "i [adv] knew that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
| 2 | I just knew that that was going to happen . |
| 3 | I just knew that if I flew back on Aeroflot , I would be stuck somewhere in the ex-USSR locked in a small cell with lots of sticky orange substance , trying to write some new country 's first entry into the Eurovision song contest . |
| 4 | I did n't know why , I just knew that the memory was unwelcome . |
| 5 | As I just knew that everybody on the truck had a clear conscience , they could n't possibly be interested in us , could they ? |
| 6 | Instantly , I just knew that the barn had closed-circuit TV and kicking a company vehicle was a firing squad offence . |
| 7 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 8 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |
| 9 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 10 | Since I already knew that the local residents would n't favour tarmac either , I decided from the outset to go for a whindust ( fine gravel ) surface . |
| 11 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 12 | ‘ I always knew that finishing the publication cycle was a necessary precondition to anything else happening . |
| 13 | I always knew that she was not going to stay — perhaps I 'll be better without her . |
| 14 | I know now that I always knew that the woman would find the pictures . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I always knew that it would come out one day . |
| 16 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 17 | Last season 's total of 38 seemed like a hard act to follow , but McCoist admitted : ‘ I always knew that I was capable of scoring even more , but I did n't want to shout too loudly about it . |
| 18 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 19 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 20 | Having been told I was special from a very young age , you believe everything is possible , but I also knew that you got nothing unless you worked hard . |
| 21 | I also knew that eating in the way I did , stuffing and starving and taking laxatives when I felt guilty about what I 'd eaten , was dangerous too , and affecting my health . |
| 22 | Even though I knew she would soon be in England , I also knew that she was n't going to live with us but with my cousins in Nottingham , and I guess I was sad about that . |
| 23 | I half-believed things people were saying and yet I also knew that Midnight Cowboy was a damn good project . ’ |
| 24 | I knew that it was quite possible to help Carol remember everything that had happened , but I also knew that it would be quite distressing for her — as indeed the trial itself would be . |
| 25 | I also knew that , when challenged , Niki would rise to the occasion . |
| 26 | He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ? |
| 27 | But I also knew that she was far from pleased with the arrangements . |
| 28 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 29 | I also knew that somehow my parents had got together to produce this baby . |
| 30 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |