Example sentences of "knew he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one who really knew him would ever let him down , she thought . |
| 2 | Anyone who knew him will gladly testify that he was a disaster behind a steering wheel . |
| 3 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 4 | The General knew he would probably die , for infantry took pleasure in killing cavalry and he would be the leading horseman in the attack on the bridge , but the General was a soldier and he had long learned that a soldier 's real enemy is the fear of death . |
| 5 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 6 | She lived on in them , in their memories , not in the ashes he knew he would soon be given . |
| 7 | That was why she knew he would always hate her . |
| 8 | Despite the nagging of common sense , Mungo knew he would never be satisfied until he found some answers . |
| 9 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 10 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 11 | I knew he would never take on students in a language he did not speak . |
| 12 | When morning dawned he knew he would never again follow the old man up to that room . |
| 13 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 14 | She sensed his waiting for her confidence , but knew he would never pressure her into saying anything she would rather not . |
| 15 | Telling him would be a mistake , she knew that , just as surely as she knew he would never tell her what he really felt , but she knew . |
| 16 | Last week Mr McTear , who was 48 , began giving evidence in the case the end of which he knew he would never see . |
| 17 | He had ninety thousand men , of whom half might fight well , and he knew he would likely face a hundred thousand of Napoleon 's veterans . |
| 18 | He knew he would only get one chance with the plastic . |
| 19 | But she knew he would only mock her , so with an effort she refrained . |
| 20 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 21 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 22 | He knew he could never talk himself straight with you . |
| 23 | She had not wanted to love this man , especially when she knew he could never love her back . |
| 24 | She was under no illusions — she knew he could never feel the same way about her , she knew too that she was storing up heartbreak for herself . |
| 25 | ‘ Fancy falling in love with the same man twice — when I knew he could never be interested in me ! ’ |
| 26 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 27 | It was none of my business , and I knew he could still feel the cold stone of that floor at the hotel while death hammered insistently just above his head . |
| 28 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 29 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 30 | He knew he must still be an object of some interest . |