Example sentences of "i knew [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 2 | I knew she had n't been in the garden , I would have been able to smell her . |
| 3 | I knew she had not been asked to the service at which her husband 's ashes were placed in the Spencer vault . |
| 4 | I knew she had this little vanity that she did n't like people to see her with her spectacles on . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew you had n't noticed . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
| 7 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 8 | I knew you had n't got him one you would argue would n't you ? |
| 9 | I knew you had n't . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew I had n't done anything to Joanna and at the same time I was totally confused as to how it could have happened . ’ |
| 11 | That 's when I started trying to get you back ; I knew I had n't got long to do it . ’ |
| 12 | As soon as I saw you , I knew I had n't got over you , but I was n't sure about your feelings . ’ |
| 13 | You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before . |
| 14 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 15 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 16 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 17 | I asked , though I knew he had n't . |
| 18 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 19 | I never knew by what road the other man would come ; for all I knew he had already been , and gone again , and all in vain , as the thief intended . |
| 20 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |