Example sentences of "know that i was [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark : I suppose the point at which my public coming out started was 1976–7 , though I 'd known that I was gay from a much earlier age . |
| 2 | She and Mother were the best of friends , and she knew that I was daft over dollies and wanted one so badly . |
| 3 | Last season 's total of 38 seemed like a hard act to follow , but McCoist admitted : ‘ I always knew that I was capable of scoring even more , but I did n't want to shout too loudly about it . |
| 4 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 5 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew that I was gay from the age of seven . |
| 7 | We went to the theatre and to dinner and I believe I must have talked and , as I have said , I know I sometimes laughed and I think no one ever knew that I was empty of everything except perhaps madness . |