Example sentences of "[pron] knew when [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field . |
| 2 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 3 | I knew when I woke that it was time for me to return . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I knew when I got into trouble I might get sent back , because when you 've been to prison once , you can be sent back every time you get into trouble . |
| 6 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 7 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 8 | Quite a few leaves underfoot here and there autumn almost upon us , next thing you knew when you looked round the trees were bare , the people hurrying home of an evening , winter upon you . |
| 9 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |
| 10 | Everybody knew when they went to her place they would always find tons to eat . |
| 11 | In short , what he knew when we left Salzburg is a mere shadow compared with what he knows now . |
| 12 | Hugh was not an absolutely brilliant solicitor but he knew when he 'd been out-manoeuvred by a ruthless opponent . |
| 13 | He knew when he felt like this that , given a yard to move in , no man on earth could stop him . |
| 14 | He knew when he went there what might happen if he broke the laws of that country . |
| 15 | He knew when he fired you . " |