Example sentences of "she knew [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 2 | When the car suddenly collided with something solid she knew her prayers had n't been answered . |
| 3 | Eventually he asked her out , and , even though she knew her parents strongly disapproved of the flashy young man from London , she disobeyed them and started sneaking out of the house every night when they were asleep , to meet him . |
| 4 | She knew her parents would be upset . |
| 5 | Rachel had n't taken a lot of notice of the young SHO — she had been more interested in her own circle of friends at the time — but he had been a frequent visitor at the Stevenses ' home and she knew her parents had liked him and had been pleased at the prospect of him becoming their son-in-law . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later , carrying a carefully packaged beautiful glass vase which she knew her parents — well , her mother in particular — were just going to love , Fabia came down the stairs again and , stepping out into the colonnade , bumped right into none other than Lubor Ondrus . |
| 7 | She knew her sons and would bet her last pound that Geoffrey had been awake waiting for something like this . |
| 8 | But er I do n't know how we got onto it er sh and I think she said something about oh , she knew her tables |
| 9 | She knew her cheeks were flaming now . |
| 10 | She knew her hands were trembling as she fiddled with a pen on the desk . |
| 11 | But at least she knew her kids were going to grow up : I know nothing 's going to change for the better with her . |
| 12 | She knew her words , she had the looks , |
| 13 | She knew her words sounded petulant , but she could n't help it . |
| 14 | She had raised Jean-Claude , she was intimate with his variety of complaints , she knew their origins , and there were remedies . |
| 15 | She knew their names — except for the thin man with the small head whom the others never addressed by name — and something of their characters . |
| 16 | She knew their names and the afflictions they suffered from , she knew the names of their children , and she was never , ever , fobbed off with inferior or bruised apples and pears or dying spinach . |
| 17 | Somehow she knew which ones he had done , even before she saw the signature . |
| 18 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 19 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 20 | She knew his eyes were a deep velvety brown , and she knew they were soft and kind . |
| 21 | She knew his ways and had adapted to them and this seemed to give him a satisfaction which quietened him . |
| 22 | She knew his methods . |