Example sentences of "know he would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I knew he would bring the girl . |
| 32 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 36 | You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’ |
| 37 | He knew he would get no more out of her , just as he knew she was getting impatient . |
| 38 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 39 | ‘ I knew he would get the humour and the pathos just right and I was proved correct . |
| 40 | He knew he would lose many of his men in the dangerous , slow pathway across . |
| 41 | Lord John had sounded hopeless for he knew he would lose a duel against Sharpe . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | If he could not come home he knew he would die , too . |
| 45 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 46 | But beneath the surface of resolution she knew he would regain his former self and enjoy again the shame of his surreptitious ways . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | But there again , as she knew he would have argued , politics were a serious matter . |
| 49 | He knew he would have to go through with the nightly ritual . |
| 50 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 51 | But we knew he would have wanted the wedding to go ahead . |
| 52 | Once he had thought of it he knew he would have to do it . |
| 53 | He knew he would have to live afterwards with the vanquished . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | He had thought beforehand that he would have to send her back and deal with Sung some other way , but now he had seen her he felt the need in him , like a strong , dark tar in his blood , and knew he would have to purge himself of that . |
| 58 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 59 | He knew he would have to work fast . |
| 60 | He knew he would have to tread very warily from now on . |