Example sentences of "i knew [Wh adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere . |
| 2 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 3 | I knew why I was famous : I was a good lyric writer and had ability on stage . |
| 4 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 5 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 6 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 7 | We had rather a lot to drink , and before I knew where I was I found myself being hustled into a broom closet by three men . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew where I was , back in the Store , ’ said Gurder , half to himself . |
| 9 | Before I knew where I was we had begun our organization , choosing Sisters Against Disablement as its name . |
| 10 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 11 | I knew where I was going . |
| 12 | ‘ But I knew where I was with you ! ’ he says irritably . |
| 13 | But her back was out of reach behind her head , and before I knew where I was , I was saying ‘ Hello ’ and holding out my hand . |
| 14 | I said at least I knew where I was with them . |
| 15 | Then I knew where I was . |
| 16 | on the grounds that until I knew where I 'd got |
| 17 | Yeah , I said I 'd have a go and before I knew where I was I got got top billing . |
| 18 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 19 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 20 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 21 | I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field . |
| 22 | ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance . |
| 23 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |
| 24 | I knew when I was beaten . |
| 25 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 26 | I knew when I got into trouble I might get sent back , because when you 've been to prison once , you can be sent back every time you get into trouble . |
| 27 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 28 | I knew when I was ten , or even earlier . |
| 29 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 30 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |