Example sentences of "[that] [pron] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long , he would be required to produce more than just carefully worded facts about the murder that everyone knew already from the grapevine . |
| 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 | But I decided fairly quickly that once the reins were in somebody else 's hands , and that somebody knew exactly what they were doing , there was no point in coming back . ’ |
| 15 | Yet , while she was finding him most difficult to forget , the realisation only then struck her that she knew neither the name of the garage that housed her car , nor the place where it was situated ! |
| 16 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
| 17 | She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw . |
| 18 | Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best . |
| 21 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 22 | That was indeed something that she knew all too well , but she was n't particularly flattered to have it spelt out to her quite so categorically . |
| 23 | The uncharacteristic fuss and fluster in Ivy 's manner was surely a proof that she knew only too well which letter he was talking about and was in mortal dread of the family finding out . |
| 24 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 25 | I expect that she knew too . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you say that you knew pretty well everyone who was at that meeting , sir ? ’ |
| 27 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 28 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 29 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 30 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |