Example sentences of "[coord] he knew that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Sharpe saw the far crops being trampled flat and he knew that each patch of collapsing rye betrayed the advance of a French column . |
| 2 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 3 | He had returned once to Granard — to bury his widowed mother beside her husband in the hillside cemetery — and he knew that that would certainly be his last visit to the place of his birth . |
| 4 | Apparently he got to hear about a particularly tricky deal prepared by three Japanese whaling companies to come with quota proposals , and he knew that one of the companies was taking a very different view from the other two , and he hoped that there could be a divide-and-rule situation set up . |
| 5 | And he knew that this was the keyhole for his wondrous delicate key , and with a little sigh he put it in and waited for what should ensue . |
| 6 | There was a sure sense of kinship , however , and he knew that this was his mother . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh Gawd — sounds like something out of bleeding Barbara Cartland : ‘ Suddenly she brushed up against him , and he knew that this was the real thing . ’ |
| 8 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 9 | He had never felt like that himself towards any woman , but he knew that such a feeling must be love . |
| 10 | Lord John had behaved badly this night , but he knew that all could be repaired , all won , and all made good , and all for a girl of winsome , heart-breaking beauty . |
| 11 | But he knew that this was not actually so , not really the case . |
| 12 | Morton had not taken up arms previously , but he knew that some of his friends would have gone to the conventicle and would have volunteered to take part in the unequal contest against the soldiers . |