Example sentences of "when [pron] know " in BNC.
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1 | There was n't too much problem when everyone knew that this is what schools were meant to do — as with the priest colleges of ancient Egypt , the monasteries of Europe or Asia , or the academies of Greece or China . |
2 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
3 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
4 | ‘ When I knew him , ’ writes Khrushchev , ‘ he was bursting with an impatient desire to rule the world . |
5 | When I knew it , in 1941 , I was a newly commissioned , very nervous officer billeted up the road in a cotton-mill-owner 's abandoned mansion on a hillside in a suburb called Ramsbottom ( locally known as Tupsarse because it was at the ‘ end of everything ’ ) . |
6 | Dalmellington , when I knew it , was very much a traditional Ayrshire mining village , with friendly people , much given to laughter and fun . |
7 | When I knew it , during the war years , it was occupied by an elderly bachelor who was one of the several mill owners in Witney , the town famed world-wide for its blankets since the seventeenth century . |
8 | So when I knew I had cancer and was facing death , I still could n't pray to the God I associated with the churches . |
9 | When I knew her , some years ago , their teenage daughter was having to share a bedroom with her granny . |
10 | I was told stories about him and I know that he was pretty much a hellraiser , but when I knew him he was just a really nice guy . |
11 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
12 | It 's just that Hubert was always such a fool when I knew him , and I hoped he might have acquired a little common sense in the meantime . |
13 | That was , when I knew I had to come back . |
14 | It was a very sad day for me when I visited Basil in a Harrogate hospital , when I knew that I would , probably , never see him again . |
15 | In all this Basil 's sense of humour , kindliness , and perception both of personalities as well as of every aspect of the visual arts , were a great help and encouragement to me , and I shall always be grateful for those years in , the West Riding when I knew and worked with him . |
16 | When I knew you ? ’ said Willoughby . |
17 | A slightly cumbersome but straightforward method is to begin , ‘ When I knew I was going to have to mention sailing , because that is Peter 's great interest , I thought I would look up what great writers and poets of the past have said about sailing . |
18 | Father Abbot , here is a strange saying , for she came to me when I was not seeking her at all , when I knew nothing of her . |
19 | It was so hard to see you suffer when I knew you 'd always been the most gentle , caring person in my life . |
20 | When I knew from nothing about affairs of the heart or the mortgage , I played a short season at the Edinburgh Festival . |
21 | Brigitte is having a party and when I knew you were here I naturally said we would go . ’ |
22 | When I knew for sure where you were I came to England alone . |
23 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
24 | Then , when I knew I was in love with you … and I thought you were n't free … ’ |
25 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
26 | ‘ Fancy falling in love with the same man twice — when I knew he could never be interested in me ! ’ |
27 | Oh , do n't worry , ’ she added , catching sight of her father 's expression , ‘ I 'm not defending him — far from it — I was as angry as you when I knew he was back . ’ |
28 | But I enjoyed myself here last year with Brabham when I knew I was not competitive . |
29 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
30 | Thing is I did n't like to ask her about her mum because er , did n't think she , she was very quite bad a few years ago when I knew her . |