Example sentences of "knew quite [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 2 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 3 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 4 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 5 | She knew quite well that her address-book was here , in her shoulder-bag . |
| 6 | She had hoped to talk to him , to suggest that he ring Maureen , who knew quite well that her niece had never been to Venice before . |
| 7 | Hope and foreboding struggled in him and drove him , and there would be no peace for him until he saw his father 's grave immaculate and at peace still , and knew quite certainly that Isambard had lied . |