Example sentences of "[conj] i knew [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told myself I 'd have an abortion , although I knew I could never go through with it , and I was so relieved when my period came . |
| 2 | And although I knew I must hide my feelings , must never allow myself to hope , I also knew that while there was breath in my body , I would always love him . |
| 3 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 4 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 5 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 6 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 7 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 8 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 9 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 10 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 11 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 12 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 13 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 14 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 15 | ‘ I am carrying a load of wiring and electronic equipment so I knew they would be interested in it , but I am completely in favour of this type of search . ’ |
| 16 | There was no one in the village who would own such a pet and the Lady Prioress is quite strict with her community on that , so I knew it must belong to the young woman who had been murdered . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She 's quite a cricketing fan herself , so I knew she would n't mind . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I did ask to sit next to you , ’ Erica remarked , as if reading my thoughts as I sat down , ‘ once I knew you 'd be here . ’ |
| 19 | The windscreen was full of horrible light , and I knew we must be crashing because I could see the wheel spinning in John 's hand … ’ |
| 20 | And I knew they 'd go up again on on Wednesday . |
| 21 | ‘ I love you in a very special way and I knew you would understand . |
| 22 | He 's such good fun , and I knew you 'd like him . ’ |
| 23 | And because I 'd let her fall off , she would n't be allowed to be a nun any more , because she had fallen into the lake of mud and I knew you could n't be a nun unless your clothes were clean . |
| 24 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 25 | She ad a party you see , and I knew she 'd be busy , and I hoped she would n't be able to check up on me . |
| 26 | She was terribly ambitious and I knew she 'd go on to do well . |
| 27 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a bank holiday and I knew there would be few buses and even fewer taxis in Harley Street if I felt threatened . ’ |
| 29 | But he did n't tell me that and I knew there would be you see , but he did n't tell me these things . |
| 30 | I did n't think they could be like REM in seven album 's time , but there was a lot depth in there and I knew it would n't dry up after one or two albums , ’ he recalls . |