Example sentences of "he [adv] knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no need whatsoever for him to ‘ take her over ’ — she knew that , and Travis knew that , and Naylor Massingham would create merry hell when he eventually knew that . |
| 2 | He little knew what fate had in store . |
| 3 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 4 | Joan is proud of both talent and talent-spotter : ‘ Graeme said that just by watching Steve work you could see he had something , that he instinctively knew how to handle the food . ’ |
| 5 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 6 | He merely knew enough to be careful ( though not careful enough ) about the words coming out under his fist . |
| 7 | He obviously knew something about Mahoney 's blackmail racket , and figured the girl would be in on it . |
| 8 | Secondly he is concerned for the church in Rome , a church that he has never visited , though he obviously knew a lot of the leaders there . |
| 9 | He obviously knew about David Harland , but why did that make him so cross ? |
| 10 | Not that he personally knew what it was . |
| 11 | He 'd probably have admitted any of the local police whom he personally knew , particularly if it were a detective concerned with a recent case . |
| 12 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 13 | On Sunday , sitting between his father aid mother ii the Unitarian chapel , he only knew that where people were sad and solemn I was overcome , half-suffocated by the sadness aid the solemnity . |
| 14 | He only knew that he was afraid of her . |
| 15 | He only knew that in his anxious and over-concerned life his second greatest fear was that she might leave . |
| 16 | He only knew it must contain documents of great corporate sensitivity since it could not be mailed or faxed , or sent by commercial courier pouch . |
| 17 | Poor Sir Isaac Newton , the father of modern science ; if he only knew , he would surely return to Earth and rewrite his books in Sanskrit to ensure a full understanding of their content . |
| 18 | He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear . |
| 19 | Billy did n't know what was wrong , he only knew that something was . |
| 20 | Whether Mick would have proposed this he did not know ; he only knew that the desire had been there ; but it seemed to be the pattern that she and her uncle left together at dinnertime . |
| 21 | How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father . |
| 22 | He only knew of the life he had led in the baby-farming house , one of seventeen young children . |
| 23 | He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird . |
| 24 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
| 25 | He only knew one word in three of the lyric he 'd chosen . |
| 26 | He only knew that Chris worked on the grocery side of the shop , and wondered how he would know him , but his problem was soon solved . |
| 27 | Distraught at what he had thrown away — and , whether she was guilty or innocent , he only knew that he wanted her back — he ran towards Vetch Street like a man possessed , head bare , careless of curious glances and jeering comment at his headlong progress , reaching Vetch Street — to find that she was not there . |
| 28 | He only knew that he had lost her , and she might be the liar , cheat and whore he thought she was , or the injured innocent she claimed to be — he did not care which , for whatever she was she had taken his life and his hopes with her . |
| 29 | ‘ If he only knew . |
| 30 | Nick was uncertain what he was doing in London , he only knew that whatever it was , his father-in-law was bound to make more money out of it . |