Example sentences of "[conj] i knew he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . |
| 2 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 3 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 4 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 5 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 6 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 7 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 8 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 9 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 10 | ‘ At the record company party , on their hands a dead star at last , the sycophantic slags all say , ‘ I knew him best and I knew him well ’ . ’ |
| 11 | And I knew him better than anyone . |
| 12 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 14 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm his mother and I knew him . ’ |
| 16 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 17 | So he finally they made him port captain for for Cunard and I knew him . |
| 18 | and I knew him when |
| 19 | Just because he came here in his working clothes and I knew he drove a lorry … |
| 20 | And I knew he knew it . |
| 21 | Then he holes the putt , and I knew he 'd won because he was three shots in front . |
| 22 | I never liked him and I knew he hated me . |
| 23 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 24 | For all the senator 's affability he was a proud man and I knew he had humbled himself to ask for my help and I also knew I could not refuse him . |
| 25 | He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ? |
| 26 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 27 | He grinned amiably , and I knew he meant exactly what he said . |
| 28 | Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’ |
| 29 | It was none of my business , and I knew he could still feel the cold stone of that floor at the hotel while death hammered insistently just above his head . |
| 30 | If he was to walk in here today and I knew he was my stepfather , I would not think twice about putting a knife through him . |