Example sentences of "[conj] i know [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He likes these contacts with the more substantial world and happily hurries off in the direction of his stationery shop and fax bureau , where I know he will encounter many difficulties . |
| 2 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 3 | There were several bulls in the dale , but I can not recall any serious incidents with them , although I know they can be very dangerous . |
| 4 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 5 | Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 13 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 14 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 15 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 16 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 17 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 18 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 21 | He graced his office with dignity and performed his duties with such excellence that I know I may have difficulty in walking in his footsteps . |
| 22 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 23 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in . |
| 24 | Any species that I know I could n't provide the proper conditions for . |
| 25 | I know they are saying ‘ she ca n't sing ’ but the important thing to me is that I know I can . |
| 26 | Constance has tried so hard at her pianoforte lessons that I know you will share our disappointment at her lack of progress . |
| 27 | I could not say how very , very much I am going to miss my dearest — except that I know she will understand . |
| 28 | Well they 're getting comfy seats and we 're star well as you can see from the last play , Wuthering Heights that erm we actually lost money on that I know it will happen but I feel that we ought to erm go along and get into a healthier position again . |
| 29 | I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |