Example sentences of "knew they would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat and David have known each other since they were eight years old and astonishingly they say they always knew they would marry ! |
| 2 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
| 3 | They knew they would blow the lid on the hundreds of millions of pounds of defence equipment which they had allowed to go to Iraq . |
| 4 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 5 | Peculiar , they all agreed , but they knew they would go to cabin 10 none the less , for the deep , dark eyes held a mystery . |
| 6 | I knew they would arrive sooner or later . |
| 7 | We knew they would finish up in rabbit pie . |
| 8 | I knew they would return ; perhaps tomorrow , in a year or in a million years , but they would be back . |
| 9 | He knew they would succeed , or die in the attempt . |
| 10 | If they were to find dry kindling to light a fire to cook their heron Marian knew they would have to stop soon , but not until they had found the stream again and crossed it . |
| 11 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 12 | Mark took these pictures down because he knew they would terrify his patients . |
| 13 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 14 | Knowing both of them , I knew they would hit it off when they got to know one another better . |
| 15 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 16 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |
| 17 | Benny knew they would come to meet her off the bus . |
| 18 | She knew they would come back to her . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't understand how you knew they would come back here , to this time , at this place in the universe . |
| 20 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 21 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 22 | Mostly I hate chimneys , but I knew they 'd rest my finger tendons and Sue Grimley needed a partner from Milenecka . |
| 23 | And I knew they 'd go up again on on Wednesday . |
| 24 | The team inside the car , three of them , would occasionally turn on the engine and try to warm themselves , but he knew they 'd feel the cold after such a freezing night . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew they 'd win easy , ’ crowed Dancer . |
| 26 | Western fans knew that they 'd get their mythical moral dramas , lovers of sloppy romance knew they 'd get their climatic tears . |
| 27 | People who come to see the Chiltern Brothers knew they 'd get a real show . |
| 28 | ‘ We knew they 'd get lots of players behind the ball . |
| 29 | If my friends knew they 'd shun me and my boy-friend would leave me . |