Example sentences of "i know it was [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Being still in the period of Stafford Crippsian austerity , I know it was rather plain and dull .
2 I know it was awfully cheap : it 'll probably fall to bits , it ca n't really be cashmere .
3 I remember when I married him but I do n't remember when I met him , although I know it was just ten days between the two occasions .
4 Oh I know it was really bad , thank you .
5 Charlene , I know it was ere .
6 he phoned her that mor it was that morning , I know it was now , and anyway he went off and he phoned her and he came back and he said to me yes she 'll , give us your phone number did n't he ?
7 I know it was very upsetting for you , Mum , when Grandma died , but we ca n't expect a kid like Anne .
8 I know it was only a reaction to shock but it was hardly admirable .
9 I know it was only eighty bucks a week , ’ the landlord said over me .
10 I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill .
11 All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition .
12 All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition .
13 Although I knew it was badly sprained I did not feel it was broken .
14 Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration .
15 There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention .
16 I knew it was just idle threats , but a lot would n't have — they 'd have been distraught .
17 I knew it was just a matter of getting the knack ! ’
18 Also I knew it was most unlike you to sacrifice one of the loveliest passages in the whole operetta to a comic routine .
19 I always stopped to look at it , although I knew it was much too expensive .
20 That was July , yes I knew it was quite a bit cheaper .
21 I knew it was inside , set a trap within the hole and then blocked up the entrance .
22 Totally wrong I knew it was afterwards I 'd said oh well .
23 I knew it was too late , but I said to Anne : ‘ Quick !
24 Joseph told me to fetch the doctor , so I ran to the village , although I knew it was too late .
25 But both he and I knew it was too late .
26 I knew it was definitely one of them
27 I knew it was definitely not that
28 I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’
29 But I knew it was more serious .
30 I knew it was only a matter of time before I would die ’ .
  Next page