Example sentences of "knew [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 2 | He chose Touche Ross because he knew that it had a tie-up with Tohmatsu , the biggest accountancy firm in Japan . |
| 3 | If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline . |
| 4 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 5 | She knew that it had not gone unremarked … |
| 6 | Now he knew that it had been a diversion , designed to hold his gaze so that he would be disadvantaged in his dealings with her . |
| 7 | She looked back at Nuadu and knew that it had to work . |
| 8 | On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August . |
| 9 | He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light . |
| 10 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 11 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 12 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 13 | Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not . |