Example sentences of "he know he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Did he know he would die a few years later ?
2 David handed the statuette to his father telling him he 'd won the contest and his father told him he knew he would succeed in the end .
3 The questions had chased each other round and round , finding terrible answers , until he knew he would start to scream if he did not shut them out .
4 He knew he would do as Cohen had directed .
5 He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams .
6 This Sunday morning , as he broke a piece from the bagel to pronounce over it the Grace Before Meals , there was a special fervour in his voice , his blue eyes were full of love and good humour , and he refused room in his heart for the sorrow he knew he would feel on leaving his family .
7 When Grainne slipped silently into his room , desire blazed up so uncontrollably that the banked-down emotions of a lifetime were swept aside , and he knew he would take her fiercely and violently .
8 You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’
9 He knew he would get no more out of her , just as he knew she was getting impatient .
10 If he could not come home he knew he would die , too .
11 He knew he would have to go in search of extra newspaper before the pains came again , but first he must rest and regain his strength after his exertions in the bathroom .
12 He knew he would have to go through with the nightly ritual .
13 If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner .
14 Once he had thought of it he knew he would have to do it .
15 He knew he would have to live afterwards with the vanquished .
16 They had fought their way backwards through pantries and brushing rooms and knife rooms , past the European servants ' staircase , past the European butler 's room , the nurseries , the nursery dining-room , and the ayah 's rooms , until in the dining-room he knew he would have to make a stand .
17 Mary had long ago disappeared but he knew — and was comforted in knowing — that she was not far off : he knew he would have the time to approach her : and on this occasion , he wanted to be sure to get her .
18 He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now .
19 He knew he would have to work fast .
20 He knew he would have to tread very warily from now on .
21 As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout .
22 The condescension there implied that the acceptance was possible only because he knew he would win .
23 The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ .
24 Whatever it was , he knew he would receive the truth now , however unpleasant , and was aware of nothing but thankfulness that it should be Abul Ismail here to tell him .
25 He knew he would lose many of his men in the dangerous , slow pathway across .
26 Lord John had sounded hopeless for he knew he would lose a duel against Sharpe .
27 He chose not to , not because he was n't enjoying it , he loved it , but he chose not to because he knew he would lose and part of the reason knew he would lose was because he sacked Douglas MacArthur .
28 Even when he snuffed it on Mount Cavalry , he knew he would live again . ’
29 Of course he knew he would hang for the offence , but he also knew that humanity is not an endangered species , and reckoned therefore that twenty-seven ( did you say twenty-eight ? )
30 The voice was incisive and cold , and he knew he ought to relax , to keep calm , above all to shut up , but somehow he could n't .
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