Example sentences of "i knew i " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 As an auditionee I knew I worked best if I attempted something outrageous so I prepared Lord Foppington from The Relapse and you just have to let go with his Lordship otherwise there 's no point to it .
3 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
4 I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it .
5 I knew I could n't do it alone , ’ Lucy said .
6 The next day , although I sprayed the pests , as I knew I must , I stood at arm 's length from the compost heap and wore jeans and high-rise trainers .
7 I knew I 'd come to the right place .
8 I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week .
9 ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’
10 I knew I was n't going great but I thought I 'd score 8,200-8,300 .
11 I knew I had n't done anything to Joanna and at the same time I was totally confused as to how it could have happened . ’
12 I knew I could never live with them again , but I thought …
13 Dholuo was the language and I knew I was an encumbrance until I could make myself understood .
14 I knew I was meant to get an hour 's worth of broadcastable material .
15 ‘ I bought a pair of white Wrangler dungarees and a Laura Ashley blouse I knew I 'd wear again .
16 The only way I knew I had reached the summit was when I started downhill again .
17 There was one about 1930s radio shows : All I had to do was hear your voice , All at once I knew I had no choice …
18 This resulted in ‘ Aladdin ’ and I knew I did n't have much more to say about rock and roll .
19 ‘ Depends — I mean , if I knew I had a team coming of course I 'd tell her .
20 I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’
21 I knew I was hooked .
22 I knew I was not attractive .
23 I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil .
24 After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought .
25 You looked back at me , and I knew I had to follow you .
26 Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky .
27 If Dana left me , I knew I would never love anyone again — or at least , not in the same way , with the same intensity .
28 Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again .
29 I knew I should n't have come , ’ said Tumbleweed .
30 You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before .
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