Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , they were talking about types of lender that they knew well enough at least to find approachable . |
| 2 | There was a silence of a sort that he knew very well . |
| 3 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 4 | She had the feeling that he knew very well what a struggle was going on beneath her words — and that he was amused by it . |
| 5 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 6 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 7 | She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best . |
| 8 | The uncharacteristic fuss and fluster in Ivy 's manner was surely a proof that she knew only too well which letter he was talking about and was in mortal dread of the family finding out . |
| 9 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 10 | Well , we did very much so , we went , actually go , went and stayed with erm , with er a chap that we knew really |
| 11 | The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there . |
| 12 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |