Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] knew [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I watched her turn and bend and lie back , oiled and tanned , her supple contours powered by a madness only I knew about , the idea that Karen ‘ was n't my type ’ seemed a quaint irrelevance . |
| 2 | But when she wanted to write about herself , which only she knew about , then she wrote it alone . |
| 3 | She told the Obersturmfuhrer all she knew of the gang , and of her involvement . |
| 4 | That was all she knew about Lucy sexually . |
| 5 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
| 6 | So she knew of Araminta 's jealousy ! |
| 7 | Oh so you knew about the Henry Moore statue there ? |
| 8 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 9 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 10 | So they knew about that . |
| 11 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |
| 12 | He replied that he did not care and anyway he knew about the Black shooting and there was no truth in what we were saying . |
| 13 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
| 15 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 16 | Hardly anyone knew of the ceremony in advance : no banns were posted and no friends ( except , perhaps , John Hayward ) were informed . |
| 17 | Even so , words did not come easily to either of us ; for the first time we both realized how very little we knew about each other . |
| 18 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 19 | Now she knew beyond any doubt that they were going to spend the rest of the evening together . |
| 20 | Now she knew without a shadow of doubt that she was n't . |
| 21 | It had hardly seemed possible before : but now he knew for sure . |
| 22 | Realising how little they knew about the subject , she and two staff midwives from Wythenshawe began to research the needs of deaf women during pregnancy . |
| 23 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 24 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 25 | Dane was the only one here who knew of her background . |
| 26 | Dane was the only person here who knew of her past . |
| 27 | Well you knew about it , because erm when you use to stay with . |
| 28 | So if a book was selling well we knew in advance that we should stock up on that one . |
| 29 | Even then I knew in a way that despair underlay my behaviour , but I would n't have been able to take the consequences of its admission . |
| 30 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |