Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] knew [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It set West Indies a target of 225 , which everyone knew was about three hundred too low , and inevitably Greenidge and Haynes began with a century partnership . |
| 2 | I reached for The Mayor of Casterbridge which I knew was somewhere in the bed . |
| 3 | It seemed that there was some , because his face , which I knew was not handsome , with its thin nose and high , bony forehead and small mouth , had still some special quality for me which an unbiased analysis of the features could n't explain . |
| 4 | The fact that he had been ‘ much distressed ’ by that prospect proved his genuine regard , which I knew was not contrived . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you know she 's a Catholic ? ’ he asked me as though it really mattered , and he gestured with his cigarette at a crucifix that hung over the narrow bed , which I knew was there solely for sentimental purposes because it had belonged to Ellen 's dead father , but to McIllvanney it was a challenge . |
| 6 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 7 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 8 | ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . ) |