Example sentences of "i knew [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia , this is Peter Suvarov , whom I knew during the war . ’ |
| 2 | All I can say is that there in that creepy hut , I came to believe it was perfectly easy to turn the whole story of the world I knew into a world of story . |
| 3 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 4 | I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission . |
| 5 | Yes , I knew about the takeover — I could hardly avoid it — but that was Ursula 's headache , not mine . |
| 6 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 7 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 8 | she assumed that I knew about the abilities and feelings of humans and cats , about houses , territory , and the socially stereotyped roles of women and men . |
| 9 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 10 | ‘ … while I was in your gallery and had just told you I knew about the Durances . ’ |
| 11 | So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so |
| 12 | I knew about the air-vent before we came . |
| 13 | I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes . |
| 14 | ‘ I also swear , ’ Prince Edward declared , ‘ that if I knew about the Lady 's … death |
| 15 | ‘ I knew about the affair before he did , ’ Faye went on over Belinda 's murmured comment . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew about the pit , of course , since Betty Yaxlee came a cropper in it Friday morning . |
| 17 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 18 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 19 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 20 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 21 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Was that woman maybe Gaynor , whom I knew with the act of love ? |
| 24 | I knew on the one hand that he was playing some kind of trick on me ; a trick like the one with the loaded dice . |
| 25 | But I do n't think there were any anyone that I knew on the railway were not against nationalization . |
| 26 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 27 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 28 | We both smiled , and I knew for a fact that she was n't Daine . |
| 29 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 30 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |