Example sentences of "[pron] knew [pron] was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Wright , the Golden Boot winner after hammering 29 goals last season , said : ‘ I knew I was onside . |
| 2 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 3 | I knew it was January |
| 4 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 5 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 6 | Even from the back , I knew it was Private Boyd . |
| 7 | But I knew it was ultrasonics that made me afraid . |
| 8 | When he put the ring on my finger , I knew it was peacetime . |
| 9 | I knew it was time to move . |
| 10 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 11 | I knew it was Leon 's hand I 'd taken into my own . |
| 12 | ‘ From the letter itself that 's how I knew it was Luke . |
| 13 | I knew it was Luke . |
| 14 | Well I knew it was Reverend Green some time ago , but I could n't decide which it , I just got that |
| 15 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew there was trouble brewin' . |
| 17 | She knew what was right and wrong in fabrics just the same as she did in life , there were no grey areas . ’ |
| 18 | She knew it was Brownie night , otherwise she would n't have been able to get Shirley out until her long-suffering husband came home . |
| 19 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 20 | She knew it was stupidity . |
| 21 | Kate was quite unable to resist rising to his bait although she knew it was madness . |
| 22 | She could scarcely breathe , let alone struggle , but when she heard the sound of someone in the undergrowth she knew it was Travis and tried to get out a warning . |
| 23 | But Japhet ( she knew it was Japhet for the name was printed in little letters on his tee-shirt ) was nobody but Finn himself , perfect down to the squint , in blue jeans . |
| 24 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 25 | She knew it was Stephen even before she picked it up . |
| 26 | Somewhere on the edge of this feeling she knew there was danger , but for the moment she allowed herself to drift alone on a cloud of enchantment . |
| 27 | If you knew it was Rohnson why did n't you put his name down ! |
| 28 | Remember , I assumed you knew it was Jennifer who had broken off the engagement and the reason she did so . ’ |
| 29 | Now we knew it was artillery , it sounded terribly close . |
| 30 | Cos we knew it was Claire . |