Example sentences of "[be] that he knew [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him . |
| 2 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 3 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 4 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 5 | Smith was a painful blustering bully of a man whose only redeeming feature was that he knew his job . |