Example sentences of "and [pron] knew that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Salah said it was much easier to persuade people in a small community : Huaiwiri had only twenty-seven households and girls could continue schooling after puberty because everyone knew everyone else , because in any case no house was closed to any other , and everyone knew that the girls would come to no harm . |
| 2 | And everyone knew that now it was time for Madame 's famous song . |
| 3 | It was a local concern , employing whole families , and everyone knew that in order to flourish they must give it their all . |
| 4 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 5 | She should be the centre of social life abhorred and dominant , and she should sit like a great spider behind the curtains of the Garden Room , spying on her friends , and I knew that her name must be Elizabeth Mapp . |
| 6 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 7 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 8 | I was aware what could happen , I could see that any weakness was pounced upon by the other boys and I knew that I was n't big enough or belligerent enough to bully my way out of it . |
| 9 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 10 | The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken . |
| 11 | I watched Alexander whore , drink , lecher and toady to your Edward and I knew that I was a better man . |
| 12 | I observed this routine the day after I learned that my services were no longer required at the Oxford International Language College , and I knew that barring an Act of God I could set my watch by it thereafter . |
| 13 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 14 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
| 15 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 16 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 17 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |
| 18 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 19 | She sounded astonished , and I knew that the real danger of the moment was only just occurring to her . |
| 20 | In this case both uncle and I knew that the answer would be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 21 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 22 | I had never seen one , but my brother had talked of them , and I knew that he was hoping he might find one here . |
| 23 | There was a desultory air to the whole performance , and I knew that he was conscious of his mediocre first round , which had put him some way down the field . |
| 24 | And I knew that I had shown some ability to fight my comer . |
| 25 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 26 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
| 27 | ‘ I had immense faith in the work of the clinic and I knew that , however many attempts it took , I would get my baby . ’ |
| 28 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 29 | So it was a way of getting out and I knew that eventually the council would have to rehouse me . |
| 30 | Its golden plumage barred and streaked with shades of brown and black , its neck extended , its thick , deep-yellow beak pointed skywards , the close-together eyes glassy bright , it stood there on green legs , a large stocky bird , richly coloured — and I knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime moment . |