Example sentences of "they knew it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 3 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 4 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 5 | It is dangerous to simplify law , but our understanding is that to convict someone of a serious crime like theft , we normally have to prove not only that they committed the alleged act , but also that they knew it was wrong . |
| 6 | They knew it was unavoidable : their clicking cameras and flashing bulbs were the catalyst . |
| 7 | They said they were , though they knew it was not true . |
| 8 | But at least they knew it was me . |
| 9 | According to the steward they knew it was ‘ not right ’ for them to earn those wages . |
| 10 | They knew it was used as one of the staging-posts for the IRA , a safe hideaway from where they would launch an attack . |
| 11 | Now they were holding awkward , sometimes acrimonious meetings , badly managed and very sad , because they knew it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 12 | He said he said erm he thought people might be less willing to speak at the meeting if they knew it was being recorded , which seems entirely reasonable . |
| 13 | They knew it was him ! |
| 14 | Then the alarm buzzed and they knew it was time to restart their deadly game . |
| 15 | They knew it was all funny because of the funny voice he put on . |
| 16 | They did n't want to look back ; they knew it was dangerous ; but they still did . |
| 17 | The simplest account for the relationship between risk and recall in this study was that subjects recalled the risky situations because they knew it was an experiment about risk , this knowledge could have affected their performance both at encoding and at retrieval . |
| 18 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 19 | The world as they knew it was displayed around and about . |
| 20 | The tension was eased and they both laughed because they knew it was impossible , her getting tipsy and aggressive and him getting turned on by it . |
| 21 | The crowd were very patient because they knew it was a difficult game for us . ’ |
| 22 | We did discuss themes for each issue , but this will be security themes , and it would help the people who are producing the paper to sell because this is one big moan they 've had , they do n't know what the content is until the last moment if they knew it was say er car security they could approach garages and car security device manufacturers etc . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose they knew it was a friendly house . ’ |
| 24 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 25 | They knew it was her . |
| 26 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 27 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 28 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |