Example sentences of "[noun] [that] i knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 2 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 3 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 4 | I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew . |
| 5 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 6 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 7 | There was but a touch of the harsh , ironic but humorous Ulster accent that I knew , in the tones of his speech . |
| 8 | This was the kind of prosaic patterning of self-absorption that I knew would entrance Mr Broadhurst . |
| 9 | It is hard to imagine the effect water can have on the lives of normal everyday people , there were about six or seven houses that I knew of that almost completely wrecked . |
| 10 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 11 | I thought of all the people called Gray that I knew , not many really for such a common name . |
| 12 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 13 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I think the only body that I knew was er an old man McDonald , you called him , was a pack man at that time . |
| 16 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 17 | Ven looked at her levelly for all of one second , then , ‘ If you remember , ’ he answered , ‘ it was not until the next day that I knew that the beautiful green-eyed woman with stunning light gold hair was a ‘ journalist ’ . ’ |
| 18 | There were things that I knew , but the programme brought it home more to me . |
| 19 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 20 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 21 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 22 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 23 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 24 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 25 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 26 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 27 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 28 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 29 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 30 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |