Example sentences of "knew we had " in BNC.
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| 1 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 2 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 3 | I knew we had visitors , for Carl seldom played for the pleasure of the family only . |
| 4 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 5 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
| 6 | I never knew we had so many relatives and friends . |
| 7 | ‘ We knew we had to battle but the players gave me everything . |
| 8 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 9 | ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw . |
| 10 | Days later , glutted with our experiences , we knew we had created a ‘ wonder walk ’ , a two week trek which could be described as a jewel in the Atlas crown . |
| 11 | I never knew we had any baronets attending St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 12 | Worried about how chilled I was , I knew we had to retreat , but in the meantime there was no choice but to follow the tugging rope . |
| 13 | According to Friedersdorf , ‘ We knew we had to get our bills enacted before the Labor Day recess . ’ |
| 14 | John Rhead arrived and , after only a few minutes , we knew we had found a genuine birder . |
| 15 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 16 | We went back to the villa hand in hand and no one ever knew we had been out , or if they did they did n't say . |
| 17 | We knew we had Roseanne Barr 's capacity to be fat and sexy and , on a bad day , any one of us could be Grace Jones — Terminator 3 ? |
| 18 | Our friend looked at them , then lifted the leaves to expose a lovely row of radishes we never knew we had ! |
| 19 | The creature gave a loud cry of pain , and we knew we had hit it . |
| 20 | We knew we had a tough target to go for . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
| 22 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 23 | Portadown captain Glenda McKee said : ‘ We knew we had to score early , and that 's exactly what we did . |
| 24 | Seve Ballesteros : " We knew we had to win . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps she knew we had proof of her treachery , but there is no need for her to fear our vengeance . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 27 | Should have been a goal , but everyone knew we had a game . |
| 28 | ‘ We knew we had to go off fairly fast , ’ she said . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of crews can try and win outright , but we knew we had the boat speed to move it through , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Goal hero Steve Mardenborough added : ‘ We knew we had to get a result because we 've slipped up a little bit recently . |