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 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 5 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 8 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 12 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh hello , Celia , ’ she said and I knew instantly that something was wrong . |
| 15 | And I knew just where you 'd be and how you 'd be lying . ’ |
| 16 | In our family my cousins and I knew well beforehand because there were always slightly older sisters and cousins who told us … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was looking forward to the film because there 's a beginning and an end , and I knew exactly where the character was going . |
| 22 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 23 | What I needed was something like a slightly battered Ford Transit van , and I knew exactly where I could borrow one . |
| 24 | And I knew exactly what it was you they were talking about ! |
| 25 | I heard the pounding of rapid footsteps and I knew straight away that it was n't a policeman ( they wear rubber soles these days ) and then somebody yelled , ‘ Hey , you ! ’ |
| 26 | weather and I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 27 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 28 | It was a six-letter word and I knew absolutely nothing about it . |
| 29 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 30 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |