Example sentences of "[adv] that i knew " in BNC.

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1 I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right .
2 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 .
3 I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors .
4 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 .
5 I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions .
6 I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters .
7 It was years later that I knew all about it .
8 She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew .
9 Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings .
10 Now that I knew the source of Jean-Claude 's black eye and bruises , I felt lighter , and the chasm of distrust that had been opened up between Jean-Claude and myself in the rue de Sèvres , closed with the key Otto had unwittingly provided .
11 It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing !
12 Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay .
13 I called , and Crispin answered , so cheerfully that I knew all was well .
14 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 .
15 The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways .
16 It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble .
17 I went totally mad because there was an officer there that I knew — an officer that had picked me up and everything — he had arrested me before , but had also done business with me .
18 One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon .
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