Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was but a touch of the harsh , ironic but humorous Ulster accent that I knew , in the tones of his speech . |
| 5 | This was the kind of prosaic patterning of self-absorption that I knew would entrance Mr Broadhurst . |
| 6 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I think the only body that I knew was er an old man McDonald , you called him , was a pack man at that time . |
| 10 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 15 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 20 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 21 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 22 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 23 | And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa . |
| 24 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
| 25 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 26 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 27 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 28 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 29 | The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised . |
| 30 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |