Example sentences of "knew to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey went out of his years at school with a sense of contentment which in retrospect he knew to be a veneer . |
| 2 | Without Angela Morgan , at least two major clients were in danger of not getting the assiduous service they were paying for , and it would be well worth trying to see if one of them , whom he knew to be a fellow refugee from family life at the weekends , could be found . |
| 3 | Why did Galileo make his abjuration at the trial , admitting what he knew to be a lie ? |
| 4 | Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret . |
| 5 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 6 | Because of a mild affection for a tart he now seemed unable even to make love to , he was going to confront a man he knew to be a murderer with copies of the photographs for which a man had been killed . |
| 7 | ‘ You sell hand-painted tiles , ’ he pronounced , and this time there could be no doubt that he was stating what he knew to be a fact . |
| 8 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 9 | The editor passed the letter to a person whom he knew to be an ‘ outside broker ’ ( one who does Stock Exchange business but is not a member of the Exchange ) but whose honesty he had no reason to suspect . |
| 10 | The last point , far from being the hardest on which to reach agreement , was the easiest : it was cleared out of the way at the very beginning , Gandhi accepting Irwin 's formulation without demur and apparently feeling no discomfort at disregarding what he knew to be the views of the Congress Working Committee . |
| 11 | Tranquillity however , they knew to be the harbinger of attack . |
| 12 | Frick took off his sound protectors and walked across to the young man he knew to be the leader . |