Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd had enough of people I knew dying or being killed , and I did n't want to be there to see all my relatives being miserable and to listen to their bomb stories . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew two sorts of women , ’ he said thickly , not looking at her , ‘ the women I loved but did n't want to go to bed with . |
| 3 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 4 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 5 | I knew many of the manufacturers from my brief career on the amateur circuit , and was always fascinated by the gimmicks that appeared without fail every year . |
| 6 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 7 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't lose hope of being released eventually because I knew other French hostages had been freed and that the French government would be working hard to free me . ’ |
| 9 | I pondered what this quality might be — not unselfishness , which it might have been , for I knew selfish mothers ; not gravitas , not responsibility . |
| 10 | For a moment I knew genuine fear and then , as it came into the light , I saw a young woman , quite small and wearing a black beret and soaked raincoat . |
| 11 | But here 's a toast to all those who played a part in this fall of a climbing journalist : my climbing friends , the helicopter rescue team , the doctors and nurses and our superb National Health Service ( coming from Ebbw Vale I knew one day I 'd have cause to be thankful to Aneurin Bevan ) . |
| 12 | ( Plus I knew one of the kids was trying to escape all the time ) It ca n't be much fun being locked up there It really sounds like a POW story . |
| 13 | I went off to America to live in New York where I knew one person . |
| 14 | I knew one bloke who overwound one o' those gramophones an' the fing busted . |
| 15 | I knew one person in London . |
| 16 | I knew one day I would get pregnant . |
| 17 | I knew one family where the husband hung himself facing the front door so that his body would be the first thing his wife would see as she came in . |
| 18 | His name did n't come out in court , but I knew one of the women involved . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 20 | I knew one of the girls and er she never got right properly again . |
| 21 | I knew all about it in theory because I had a young Bhabi and she used to tell her friends about her experiences and I used to overhear ( laughs ) . |
| 22 | Of course , deep inside me , I knew all along that they knew . |
| 23 | I knew all about that . |
| 24 | I knew all these ; had already played with them in my mind , from the most inconsequential ( Mickey Spillane 's ‘ another three days ' work never hurt anyone' ) to the most tragic : the story of Joseph de Jussieu and his search for the fever tree . |
| 25 | I knew all about that . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 27 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 28 | I knew all about them when they were called the Savage Sausages and they used to play the Powerhaus singing ‘ Louie Louie ’ through a 20 watt PA … |
| 29 | I called , and Crispin answered , so cheerfully that I knew all was well . |
| 30 | I knew all about the technical hazards , the need to remain seemingly unperturbed when the running order had to be changed at the last second , the importance of acquiring a warm , friendly rapport with the viewer . |