Example sentences of "he now know " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 2 | He now knew less about her than the day they had first met in the post office , standing beside one another on the scrubbed hollow boards , waiting for the evening mail van to come . |
| 3 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 4 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 5 | Gently , deftly , as if he now knew exactly what to do , Marcus turned Pat on to his back , pulling him slightly toward the centre of the bed and laying his arms out straight beside his body . |
| 6 | He now knew , too , what had happened , through the contrivings of that tortuous , ingenious mind , to the last exiled Emperor of the dynasty of Byzantium , and all his grown sons . |
| 7 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 8 | He now knew what had happened , how it had happened , and what had been the effect . |
| 9 | He now knew that the old Slann gates had collapsed , sending surges of transmuting energy through the remnants of their old network of gates . |
| 10 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 11 | He returned on 16 September , telling Tom Jones that he now knew what Roosevelt meant when he said he felt like a ‘ bull moose ’ . |
| 12 | He forced open his windows and looked out over the courtyard , over the town to where what he now knew as Skiddaw stood in dusky largeness , a prehistoric beast couchant . |
| 13 | It occurred to Rostov that there would be more point to the information if he also had some control over the pod 's guidance system , but at least he now knew where he was going . |
| 14 | Sir John ignored her , dressing hastily ; he now knew that Vechey had been murdered . |
| 15 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 16 | All right , he now knew why she had come — not to follow him as he 'd thought , but to deliver the letters ; but that still did n't explain his anger . |
| 17 | He now knew Angel One would keep his side of the bargain and release the youth . |
| 18 | He did that several times until he had established the depth to reach the lock and bolt and he now knew a single spring-loaded tumbler holding it in place . |
| 19 | He now knew almost for certain that the British were not prepared to find the money . |
| 20 | At least he now knew there was no question of any kind of casual relationship with her … |
| 21 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 22 | In truth , as he now knows , he has been fighting with a God intent on blessing for a reason hidden in his deep purposes of redemption . |
| 23 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |
| 24 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 25 | ( He now knows what it means . ) |
| 26 | He now knows that there is no scenario more likely than any other . |
| 27 | Priskin 's back to his mischievous ways , though he now knows to keep a low profile on washing day . |
| 28 | If the Foreign Secretary and Witney M P , Douglas Hurd , thought he was going to get any change from the Israeli government , he now knows he was wrong . |