Example sentences of "[conj] i knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 2 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 3 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 4 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 5 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 6 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 7 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 8 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 9 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 10 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 11 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 12 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 13 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 16 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 17 | ‘ None that I knew about , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 18 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I was looking forward to the film because there is a beginning and an end , and I knew where the character was going . ’ |
| 20 | I knew the course because of playing it in my army days , and I knew where the worst of the rough was , but that did n't count for much after the first day . |
| 21 | And I knew why . |
| 22 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 23 | ‘ I feared even at the eleventh hour that it would not be possible — and I knew not when we could meet else . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh hello , Celia , ’ she said and I knew instantly that something was wrong . |
| 25 | And I knew just where you 'd be and how you 'd be lying . ’ |
| 26 | In our family my cousins and I knew well beforehand because there were always slightly older sisters and cousins who told us … |
| 27 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 28 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 29 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 30 | It was not seemly for the Second Son to outshine the father in this way and I knew instinctively that before a year had passed there would be more building in the compound . |