Example sentences of "[conj] i knew [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 31 | ’ But I knew I had to get rid of that Jackson' . |
| 32 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 33 | Unknown then , of course , but I knew she had talent . |
| 34 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 35 | She even very kindly offered to attend to things , but I would not let her do that because I knew I had to face up to my responsibilities . |
| 36 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 37 | ‘ The second stroke was terrifying because I knew I had escaped the trauma of the first , I was petrified . |
| 38 | ‘ The second stroke was terrifying because I knew I had escaped the trauma of the first , I was petrified . |
| 39 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 40 | So when I knew I had cancer and was facing death , I still could n't pray to the God I associated with the churches . |
| 41 | That was , when I knew I had to come back . |
| 42 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 43 | ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw . |
| 44 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 45 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 46 | Gladly would I have been in the condition of dog or horse , for I knew they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weights of Hell as mine was like to do . ’ |
| 47 | I asked , though I knew he had n't . |