Example sentences of "knew [pron] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 2 | But now they were spoken she knew she had been right . |
| 3 | He did not lift his head , but she could sense the hesitation in him and knew she had been right . |
| 4 | Jessamy knew she had been cruel , and a part of her was already regretting it . |
| 5 | Constance knew she had been insensitive , and was aware of how much she had hurt her mother . |
| 6 | When the Robemaker spoke again in his soft hissing voice , he knew he had been right . |
| 7 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 8 | As soon as he saw Pickerage he knew he had been right : here was a boy who had often gone for interviews in the headmaster 's study . |
| 9 | Dinah knew he had been kind to Paul , and was bringing out his second book ; and Paul had started on a third . |
| 10 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 11 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |