Example sentences of "knew [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the places that knew them shall know them no more . ’ |
| 2 | He had found his lost road and knew nothing would ever turn him from it again . |
| 3 | Fire sub-officer Paul , 33 , knew nothing could be done for the car couple , but he realised the lorryman had not got out . |
| 4 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 5 | They knew someone would go to get her and waited . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew someone might die . ’ |
| 7 | He could hear the sound of a wireless so he knew someone must be in . |
| 8 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
| 9 | I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit . |
| 10 | If Dana left me , I knew I would never love anyone again — or at least , not in the same way , with the same intensity . |
| 11 | Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again . |
| 12 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 13 | I remembered the old man in the military coat and knew I would have felt safer with a handful of dry knucklebones in my pocket . |
| 14 | But I knew I would be leaving Hawaii in January . |
| 15 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 16 | ‘ If I knew I would n't be asking you , and if I did n't know her inside out I would have said she was worried about something . ’ |
| 17 | My father was a professional soldier and I was conscious of his excellence and knew I would never achieve that excellence . |
| 18 | So , back to the typing I knew I would go , but at least now I could see an end to it . |
| 19 | I knew I would n't get back in two hours when I was overtaken by a hopping rabbit . |
| 20 | I always knew I would be such a useless person … . |
| 21 | I knew I would be alone all my life so I started preparing for it as soon as possible . |
| 22 | Said he only saw me because he knew I would bring a present . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He may have done it before , and said nothing to me because he knew I would n't approve . |
| 24 | But whatever happened I knew I would fail them . |
| 25 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 26 | I blew lines repeatedly and did a terrible job , and I knew I would n't get the part . ’ |
| 27 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 28 | But , as she wrote in Newsweek , ‘ In my time , we ran a very firm policy ; people knew I would say no . |
| 29 | ‘ This has been an extraordinarily long ordeal , but I always knew I would be vindicated , ’ Mr Greenway , MP for Ealing North , London , said yesterday . |
| 30 | Eventually I gave in , just as both of us knew I would . |