Example sentences of "that [pron] know [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change .
2 The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised .
3 The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right .
4 And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing .
5 ‘ Have you forgotten that I know you were involved with him six years ago ?
6 Now that she knew they were there , they stuck out because they were obviously some different language .
7 She says that she knew they were being pushed down the hill and she screamed when she felt the flames .
8 DRUGS girl Patricia Cahill has admitted that she knew she was smuggling when customs men seized her in Bangkok .
9 It was something that she would never have thought possible and now that it had actually happened , now that she knew she was n't dreaming , she wanted it to last .
10 The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind .
11 She tried to smile , attempting to indicate that she knew it was n't his fault , that he had n't known what he was doing .
12 She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable .
13 Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying .
14 It occurred to me that she knew you were a Gemini , and she was clearly thrilled about us getting together . ’
15 thing is that you know we were at w we , actually we got lost and were asking directions .
16 He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean .
17 I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away .
18 Not that we knew you were coming but
19 But she did n't like the idea that we knew she was hiding something , did she ?
20 I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany .
21 Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled .
22 It is dangerous to simplify law , but our understanding is that to convict someone of a serious crime like theft , we normally have to prove not only that they committed the alleged act , but also that they knew it was wrong .
23 I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me .
24 I mean they there was a fact that they knew you were unemployed er or was n't in any s You were yours yourself a target .
25 Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either .
26 Alan 's parents were perfectly civilized about the marriage , and Alan took considerable satisfaction in the fact that he knew they were rather shocked .
27 It was quite apparent that he knew he was a doomed man .
28 What one can read between the lines was that Jackie was n't yet a champion , that he knew he was good enough to be one and that the pressures and opportunities to make money were too good to be passed up .
29 One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him .
30 One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe :
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