Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [pers pn] knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked if they knew the way to the Sanctum . |
| 2 | I asked if he knew what had happened to her . |
| 3 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing — I asked if he knew if she 'd seen anyone in the hospital recently , before we contacted Records . |
| 5 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 6 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 7 | I fancied that I knew what he was thinking ; much like what Jack would have thought . |
| 8 | He never said anything , but I knew that he knew , because he was nicer to me than he had ever been before . |
| 9 | I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it . |
| 10 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 11 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 12 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 13 | So like when I said that she knew that I was teasing her when I said in , in that tone of voice . |
| 14 | I knew what I had and I knew what I wanted . |
| 15 | ‘ The first one being that I had put two and two together from your various veiled remarks , and I suspected that you knew about Rob 's relationship with Elise and that you were , in a sense , gunning for him . |
| 16 | I wondered if you knew anything about them ? ’ |
| 17 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 18 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 19 | She asked if he knew a ‘ vile jacobin villain ’ who had led astray a young man from her parish called Burnett . |
| 20 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 21 | she assumed that I knew about the abilities and feelings of humans and cats , about houses , territory , and the socially stereotyped roles of women and men . |
| 22 | Referring to her disgraced son-in-law as ‘ Mr Mellor ’ , she added that she knew of his decision to resign ‘ some time ago ’ . |
| 23 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 24 | For example , a county GRIST coordinator ( formerly a mathematics teacher ) who claimed that he knew of the Report but had not read it , made the following eloquent and not untypical statement : |
| 25 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 26 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 27 | It was she who would be embarrassed if she knew , or at any rate , if she knew that he knew that she knew . |
| 28 | You knew that he knew that . |
| 29 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 30 | And strangely enough she felt that she knew him but that was absurd , she had never seen him before . |