Example sentences of "knew she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew she 'd gone up to Jack 's — she always does now if he 's alone , makes no secret of it . |
| 2 | I knew she was n't coming back . |
| 3 | She did n't look like she was there ; she knew she did n't want to be there . |
| 4 | Because when Jay had first kissed a woman , she knew she had come home , it was what she was born for . |
| 5 | She knew she could n't , did n't want to . |
| 6 | And then , when she knew she did n't want to have sex with him at all , she was pregnant . |
| 7 | She knew she had inherited something unique ; she did not know how to save it ; she found out ; and she did it , down to the last chair cover . |
| 8 | This explains the anomaly of why these questions were asked by people who already knew she was Catholic , and why they were periodically asked in different ways throughout the year of field-work , for they are the means for establishing and then reconfirming and testing the typification . |
| 9 | That was the stuff of melodrama , and now she was back in Oxford she knew she was somewhere , somehow , still too middle-class , too much her father 's daughter , to want that . |
| 10 | The day she moved in she knew she had been defeated , that love , love for her mother and for her daughter , had defeated her . |
| 11 | Her Uncle Wong , her grandmother 's friend , who was now under a shadow so deep that without being told , Maggie knew she must not mention his name , her beloved Uncle Wong had given her Fenna . |
| 12 | Now here , lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check , Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long , that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride . |
| 13 | She knew she was doing it more and more , taking more and more risks . |
| 14 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 15 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Maggie with such bleak sincerity that Phoebe knew she must go on . |
| 17 | Under her bare toes the floor felt real and solid , and although she was lonely and sad she knew she was going to choose to return to the real and solid world . |
| 18 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 19 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |
| 20 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |
| 21 | Even at that early stage in her career , Roddick knew she was different and she cultivated it . |
| 22 | They knew she took bread to her mother , jam she had made from the blackcurrants at the foot of the garden but the basket always came back heavy with fresh eggs , a bunch of carrots from the bog , plums that they loved , sweet hard yellow apples . |
| 23 | The moment their eyes met , Amanda knew she wanted him . |
| 24 | I knew she 'd do that , cos she really likes hats . |
| 25 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 26 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
| 27 | Claudia Yeo was feeling sick , but knew she was on secure ground . |
| 28 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 29 | Her family she could stand , and even regarded some of them as having qualities superior to her own , arrogant as she knew she was . |
| 30 | Jane appreciated Flora 's style and ‘ game for anything ’ attitude which she knew she herself lacked . |